With @Lydia_Pintscher and @siebrand in a BoF about paid/unpaid contributors. I wonder whether we should try this idea of funding the budget for a sprint in some house where we combine employees and volunteers working on a project.

... and now @Lydia_Pintscher, @siebrand and myself happen to be in another BoF: Round table on diversity, trust and openness in Open Source

We seem to have similar tastes.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ is a URL/site to look at. Haven't
researched fully, but looks interesting to find out where blind spots may
be.

In T764#15153, @Qgil wrote:

With @Lydia_Pintscher and @siebrand in a BoF about paid/unpaid contributors. I wonder whether we should try this idea of funding the budget for a sprint in some house where we combine employees and volunteers working on a project.

+1 aka "Sprints".

Google Code-in agenda will be posted on Monday! Two weeks to apply (Nov 10), and then organizations announced a couple of days later. 12 orgs this year (was 10).

Coding starts on December 1. Monday after Thanksgiving holidays. 7 weeks.

New: there will be a tag to define absolute beginner tasks. Because they found out that a big % of registered participants don't even dared to commit to a first task.

New: Quick overview to IRC (found to be a common problem among students), version control, being part of the community, quality over quantity. Seriously: quality over quantity, this is something that everybody needs to understand.

By the way, this is where the unconference schedule is posted: https://sites.google.com/site/gsocmentorsummitstudentreunion/weekend-sessions-schedule

Two sessions were merged, and I was there:

• Global demographics of Open Source
• GSoC and the Arab World -- why so few participants?

At Tips and best practices for Open Source Documentation, where people are discussing about using wikis vs using docbook... A bit of disperse discussion.

Anecdote: the guy sitting next to me said "The MediaWiki guys write API documentations because this is the only thing they will know to do", to which I replied, "Hi". Laughs in the room. :)))

I met and discussed with people from Wikieducator yesterday/today and how they can collaborate with us. Interaction with student from Punjab University was useful too (he has mw extension for BRL CAD project).

On other useful side:

• Met Apertium upstream and had brief discussion on how we increase collaboration with each other. We already doing good here (See notes from Alex K somewhere in Gerrit :))
• Lots of discussion with students from everywhere.