I am very interested. The event sounds to be very useful and nice. Especially the possibility to meet other open source projects is a powerful argument for this :-)

I'm interested too. It sounds like a lot of fun and an excellent opportunity to meet awesome people whom I've only met online yet. :)

Count me in as well. Sounds awesome.

I'm interested as well.

So far we have 4 people interested for 2 slots. In previous editions we had a common-sense conversation between the people interested. Would that be enough also this time? (@Aklapper, GCi 2014 was the last time we run into this situation -- any advice here?)

GSoC's mid-term evaluation ends by July 3rd. We can wait until that date to decide.

I fail to find those past conversations, but IIRC we discussed (and also challenged a bit) among all interested parties what everybody would like to achieve at the Mentor Summit (e.g. there are dedicated sessions in an unconference style if the format has not changed in the meantime) both personally and for Wikimedia who you'd represent, to get past "It could be a nice trip and an interesting weekend" statements. :)

Another potential criterion could be who has been a long-term GSoC mentor but has never attended the GSoC Mentor Summit so far. Not sure if that is a great criterion but at least it feels kind of objective if people could not come to an agreement?

(Shooting myself in the foot here, but) I think priority should probably also be given to remotees. I remember when I was remote I was pretty jealous at all the action that's going on near the office.

So, I guess I'm removing myself from the race. Go remotees! Just tell me how it was :)

Speaking as a remotee, I feel like I get to go to events pretty frequently, so I don't really feel that should be a criterion (maybe whether the person was able to go to other Wikimedia-related events should be, though).

In T102608#1393233, @Aklapper wrote:

Another potential criterion could be who has been a long-term GSoC mentor but has never attended the GSoC Mentor Summit so far. Not sure if that is a great criterion but at least it feels kind of objective if people could not come to an agreement?

I think this is a pretty good criterion (possibly among others).

In T102608#1386890, @Aklapper wrote:

I fail to find those past conversations, but IIRC we discussed (and also challenged a bit) among all interested parties what everybody would like to achieve at the Mentor Summit (e.g. there are dedicated sessions in an unconference style if the format has not changed in the meantime) both personally and for Wikimedia who you'd represent, to get past "It could be a nice trip and an interesting weekend" statements. :)

This might somewhat depend on who exactly is going (both from Wikimedia and from other organizations). The list of organizations is at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015 so we can start thinking about this.

I like the IRC-meeting idea to talk about the issue. What about creating a Doodle to find a date for it?

It's my third year, and I'd be quite interested to attend.

All candidates, please edit the table in the description with your data.

Let's say that the last chance to decide is by the end of the IRC meeting. If we have consensus before after discussing here, so be it.

I've removed myself. One last thought, might be nice to have at least one volunteer.