Thank you Brian, Nischay, John, Cyken and Yaron for the words. You people
are doing a great job by keeping this thread and idea alive. I would want
to agree to disagree at places like - 'hiring everyone of them' or things
like that. If we are talking about making people stick, the model I am
talking about would be a *cheaper *option ?
I just want to reply to something over here.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Nischay Nahata <nischayn22(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think GSoC or Wikimedia and schools/colleges
don't reach out to each
other in a proper manner. This leads to late and limited discovery of GSoC
(only some students will know mostly when they stalk their seniors
profile). So I think there has to be an effort to reach out to students
early on, let them know about this programme, etc. This can be done by
approaching through the current/past students and maybe the faculty.
We are talking about the participation for an international event, and I
dont think reaching out to every University and department would scale.
Like, what can we talk - even if we have this hypothetical awareness camp
to all profs and students ? It would be something like - If you want to
contribute to Mediawiki, please do, and we have this shiny thing called
GSoC, which can give you something cool on your resume etc. Better than
this, if we have in event in hand, this thing can go really well -
specially I am talking about the wide reach of it. People can just share
links, sign up and participate.
I really liked what John is doing in Indonesia - that program, when planned
at the right time before GSoC or GCI, can have a huge boost to the number
of applications and more than that, the quality of the applications. The
number of spam proposals which we recieve each year, might even reduce.
Thinking practical, if with little support, I feel that this program might
be able to be a huge hit, specially in my home country - India, and if
there is enough support, I might be able to even run a sample of it over
there and see how the results change. I would need little help like, maybe
few goodies for people who can show exceptional peformance and something
for the grand prize.
Thanks,
Tony Thomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas>
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