Re: [VOTE] open ComDev SVN access to all committers

2011-03-07 Thread Ross Gardler
The votes were unaminous: With my +1 we have 9 +1 and no other votes. I'll make the change now. Ross On 03/03/2011 14:50, Ross Gardler wrote: Recently we moved to the CMS for our website. One of the side effects of this is that we have to grant commit access to allow people to edit the site.

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Ross Gardler
In the past I've always sent one out in advance telling people what will happen. I've never encouraged people to put effort in until accepted. Sent from my mobile device. On 7 Mar 2011, at 19:08, Norman Maurer wrote: > Yeah sure.. I thought such a message only goes out after the ASF is > acce

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Ross Gardler
In the past I've always limited announcements to PMCs (and incubator mentors). I believe we need PMC support for all proposals. Going to committers@ might result in individuals with minimal PMC support. Sent from my mobile device. On 7 Mar 2011, at 18:21, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > I think we sho

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Norman Maurer
Yeah sure.. I thought such a message only goes out after the ASF is accepted. I will try todo some research on this in the archives ( to see how this was handled the years before). Bye, Norman 2011/3/7 Ulrich Stärk > I think we should prepare a message to committers@ announcing GSoC 2011 > and

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Ulrich Stärk
I think we should prepare a message to committers@ announcing GSoC 2011 and how we plan to mark tasks. Uli On 07.03.2011 18:24, Kathey Marsden wrote: > On 3/7/2011 2:18 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: >> >> Does your organization have an application template you would like to see >> students use? If so

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Kathey Marsden
On 3/7/2011 2:18 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. Please note that it is a very good idea to ask students to provide you with their contact information as part of your template. Their co

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Here's the Saros text: Saros provides a way for distributed developers to work together in real-time over the Internet and includes additional features supporting "distributed party programming", a looser type of collaboration. Saros is considered useful for virtual communities (as typically fo

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Ross Gardler
On 07/03/2011 15:07, Ulrich Stärk wrote: On 07.03.2011 15:54, Ross Gardler wrote: What is the URL for your ideas page? http://s.apache.org/gsoc2011tasks That link says "The selected filter with id '12315354' does not exist. If you think this message is wrong, please consult your administrat

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: > > If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the > ratio of students passing to students allocated, e.g. 2006: 3/6 for 3 out of > 6 students passed in 2006. 2010: 39/44 N

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Ulrich Stärk
On 07.03.2011 15:54, Ross Gardler wrote: >>> What is the URL for your ideas page? >>> >>> http://s.apache.org/gsoc2011tasks > > That link says "The selected filter with id '12315354' does not exist. > > If you think this message is wrong, please consult your administrators about > getting the n

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Ross Gardler
On 07/03/2011 10:50, Ulrich Stärk wrote: The Apache Software Foundation hope to help students to get in touch with Opensource. Beside this we try to teach them how to develop and communicate in a multi-culture organisation. All this will help them to get some "real-world" expirience which will h

Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Comments inline. On 07.03.2011 11:18, Norman Maurer wrote: > Hi there, > > For the Co-Admins: > * I need your Id's to add it to the Application > > For the "last Admins": > * Do we have some stats about how many students pass last year etc ? > > > > I prepared this for GSOC. Please review

Re: The theory of retreats

2011-03-07 Thread Noirin Shirley
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Stefan Seelmann wrote: > > Christian, do you have time to come to Munich on the 30th? Let's > discuss that off-list, I think that isn't interesting for the other > subscribers of this list. > If we can do a Friday/Saturday, I'll happily come up from Zurich :-) BC

[GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-07 Thread Norman Maurer
Hi there, For the Co-Admins: * I need your Id's to add it to the Application For the "last Admins": * Do we have some stats about how many students pass last year etc ? I prepared this for GSOC. Please review and add comments. Organization Name: The Apache Software Foundation Descripti