Does it cost the organization any money to have the project director sent to Google HQ? Parrot Foundation really doesn't have any money for that kind of expenditure.
For anybody who follows the GSOC mailing lists, there has been some talk that this year Google is trying to increase participation from smaller organizations. Because of that push, it might be easier for Parrot to get accepted as a mentoring organization by itself this year if we choose to go that route. That said, we've done very well in the past few years, attracting as many projects as the Perl Foundation has. Considering the relative sizes of Perl and Parrot communities, we've done abnormally well in the past few years. Keep in mind that Perl probably gets a quota for projects than we would by ourselves, so it's hard to tell whether we would get as many spaces without being under the Perl Foundation umbrella. Lots of things to think about with this topic, and it all presumes that Perl and/or Parrot would even get accepted as a mentoring organization this year. I strongly suspect they will, but we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves. --Andrew Whitworth On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:56 PM, James E Keenan <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends, > > I would like to schedule some time at #parrotsketch on Tuesday, February 15 > to discuss the Parrot project's participation in the 2010 Google Summer of > Code. > > I welcome a relatively open-ended discussion of questions such as: > > * "What type of projects should we encourage GSOC students to take on?" > * "Why we should try to have GSOC students work on projects that can be > merged into Parrot before GSOC ends." > > However, there is one narrower, organizational question that needs some > discussion: Should the Parrot Foundation participate jointly in GSOC with > the Perl Foundation, as it has in previous years? Or should we participate > separately? > > Let me emphasize right here that I'm not proposing this as "yet another step > in differentiating ourselves from Perl." My concern is much more practical > than that. > > Any open source project that participates in GSOC needs a project director > to serve as liaison to Google, GSOC students and GSOC mentors. The workload > on the project director is considerable and entails travel to Google offices > to participate in planning. > > Jonathan Leto has served as project director for both Parrot Foundation and > Perl Foundation for several years -- and served very well! But I think the > workload in organizing both Parrot and Perl projects has now grown to the > point where each organization should have its own GSOC project director. > Jonathan serves as our Community Manager and as a member of the Parrot > Foundation Board of Directors -- and that's on top of contributing to Parrot > itself and to PLParrot! So I would like Jonathan to serve as Parrot's rep > to GSOC this year (but with a team of assistants and project mentors -- > start volunteering now), and ask Perl Foundation to recruit their own > project director. > > I would like to get our developers' consensus on this because we will have > to approach Perl Foundation about this. Hence, I'm pre-scheduling a request > for time at this week's online meeing. > > Thank you very much. > > Jim Keenan > (President, Parrot Foundation) > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
