Registered mentors join with summer-coding-discuss list

[Buddhike Kurera]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 04/02/2012 10:36 AM, Buddhike Kurera wrote:
>> Dear Mentors,
>>
>> The summer-coding-discuss[1] list is active and registered mentors
>> (google-melange) are already invited. Please use the link on the
>> invitation mail to join with the list.
>>
>> This list is reserved for mentors/ admins and will use to discuss
>> things related with this year summer-coding program. The list will
>> be public once the program has been concluded for this year.
>
> So I sent Buddhike an email about this earlier, sorry it arrived late
> for this action.
>
> Mentors usually have a private-always mailing list so they can discuss
> student performance and issues. This includes the discussions about
> applications. We don't want that to become public, ever. GSoC is
> somewhere for students to learn and potentially fail, which they will
> also learn from. We don't want discussions to be out in the public
> record, which could harm students.
>
> As it happens, we already have a private-for-mentors mailing list. I
> think I recommend we use that list and not the -discuss list. This is
> because the -discuss list has students and other people who are not
> mentors, so shouldn't be part of the private mentor discussions.
>
> Here's how we did it in 2010.
>
> summer-coding - the Summer Coding SIG (special interest group) list,
> not about the current program
>
> summer-coding-discuss - students, mentors, and everyone else to
> discuss any topic, such as proposals, ideas, etc.
>
> summer-coding-mentors - private list so mentors can discuss student
> applications and performance
>
> That was in 2010 when we did Fedora Summer Coding. For all other years
> we used the two Google Groups:
>
> redhat-summer - general discussion list with students and mentors
>
> redhat-summer-mentors - private list for mentors ...
>
> So for this year where we are just Fedora in GSoC (used to also
> include JBoss, one of the reasons we used the Google Group), we have
> taken over the summer-coding@ list, which is fine - the SIG isn't
> active anyway, so better to do all the student, mentor, SIG
> discussions in one place. Then we can use the summer-coding-mentors
> list for the private discussions.
>
> Does this make sense? Or did I just confuse things more?

Sorry for the communication delay. As noted will use the
summer-coding-mentors list
and will add registered mentors to that list.

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Regards,
Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera)
Fedora Ambassador - APAC region
Event Liaison - Design Team

Email: bckurera at fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera