On 10/11/2013 01:43 AM, Saurabh Sood wrote:
Hi, I think we should *prefer* students prior contributions, as there will be a better chance of them sticking around after the end of the program. This year, we had a heady mix of people with prior contributions and newcomers. This would be preferable.
There is nothing in the proposed new wording that precludes the preference of existing contributors. However, the original proposal for #3 was very strong in discouraging newcomers to apply for GSoC projects in openSUSE. First, actively discouraging participation via strongly worded guidelines as originally proposed is against our guiding principals. Secondly, if we only consider students that already contribute how are we ever going to grow. I don't think anyone has an issue with giving a student that already contributes to the project and has an equally strong plan and proposal as a newcomer the advantage. However as was originally proposed you might as well have written "Newcomers don't apply", and that is something I and others have an issue with. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org