About GSOC mess: Running under 'Smalltalk' org. name
I'm really happy to hear that.
I think one reason why ESUG tends to be Pharo biased is the lack of
projects from other Smalltalk dialects. ESUG and GSOC cannot give money to
projects that does not exist.
I would love to see this year Squeak, Amber, Pharo, VW, Smalltalk X, GNU
smalltalk AND Visual age projects. Then it is the duty to each mentor to
advertise his project to find good students and to have his project
accepted. We all know that it is a lot of work, but last years all mentors
worked hard and the community had good results. Please future mentors
propose a project in your favourite smalltalk dialect and do your best to
have your GSOC accepted.
2014-02-09 12:58 GMT+01:00 Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com:
The Squeak Oversight Board would like to see GSoC projects continue
under the European Smalltalk User Group.
The Squeak community plans to present several projects this year.
frank
On 8 February 2014 09:50, Stéphane Ducasse stephane.ducasse@inria.fr
wrote:
declaring
that ESUG was not doing a good job managing
GSOC. We feel insulted and we are quite concerned by that fact.
Personally
if students would not be involved I would vote that ESUG does not have
anything to do with GSOC. Because it costs us money, time and stress.
Note
in addition that we never interferred with the choice or anything.
I will ask the ESUG board to decide because we cannot do the job, spend
time, money and be treated like that.
Sorry! We are sad but this is like that.
Then we do not like the kind of mails that Janko is sending us about the
fact that ESUG is biased towards Pharo.
Where are the research teams and teachers? Of course: the mails of janko
are just so nice. I let you judge.
It is particularly fun since this year we (the pharo board) decided not
to
organise a Pharo conference to avoid competing with ESUG.
About motivations for my proposal:
-
'Smalltalk' is more recognizable name on first spot that 'ESUG' . And
this matters when a student looks at around 150 GSoC organizations to
choose, which one to check and try. See last year list of orgs. -
ESUG is currently regarded by many as too biased towards Pharo. Let we
avoid starting debating is this is true or not. Making our org more
independent will I hope remove any remaining doubt about that.
I feel shocked and insulted but I take it easy, having success make you
as
easy target for jaleous people. This is strange that
some people would prefer to have a non existing/moving open-source
smalltalk. May be the losers theory.
I added the answer of marcus below (because marcus usually is much calmer
than me) so that Janko succeeded to get marcus reacting like that is a
nice
proof in itself.
Seriously Smalltalk is in a so good shape in presence of lua, Javascript,
ruby and python, clojure that we should fight.
Excellent idea thank for this nice initiative.
Stef
Begin forwarded message:
From: Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek@gmail.com
Subject: [gsoc-mentors] Running under 'Smalltalk' org. name
Date: 8 Feb 2014 08:46:18 GMT+1
To: smalltalk-gsoc-mentors@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: smalltalk-gsoc-mentors@googlegroups.com
Dear mentors,
I propose that we run this year GSoC simply under 'Smalltalk' name.
Mentoring organization will be us mentors of past and current GSoCs, as
the
name 'mentoring organization' implies anyway. Such organization therefore
doesn't need to be some kind of legal entity.
Because I need to open a new website and we have only one week to
deadline,
decision needs to be done soon.
Best regards
Janko
Janko Mivšek
Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team
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Of course you need it: I filled out quite some paperwork for Google.
ESUG is
an official Google supplier, for that I filled american tax forms and so
on.
Without an organisation that will be very difficult. How do yu receive
money
for the flight if someone goes to the meeting in the fall?
One of the reasons why the Smalltalk GSOC was accepted was I think that
it
was the same organisation that is already in the books of google.
And I do not see why to change that: ESUG did a good job, we even lost
money
(that is, we spend more money on additional Summer of Code slots
than got in with the money from google).
We payed all additional expenses of the people going to the Summit:
only pays the flight and hotel. Everyhting else not (e.g. going from the
airpot
to the hotel).
What we need to discuss this year is if additional slots make sense: We
had
last year the fast that
a) it was very expensive for ESUG
b) even then, we got complaints that it was unfair that we did not pay
the
same as google
c) that it was very extremely unfair that the student could not put
Summer of Code” on the CV.
The last is the Killer: money from ESUG is just money. GSoC is more. So
we
ask if it is really worth to spend the money
if even the students are not happy about it.
And if your motivation behind is that this way you think it will be
easier
to enable “Quotas” for different Smalltalks: I think this is a dumb
idea.
Yes, Pharo is very active. So could every other Smalltalk be, too. They
just
need to do it. If they do not, it is not my duty to limit
my activity for “Fairness”. Limiting the activity level of those who do
to
be more “in line” with what those do who do nothing is just
insane. It’s a description of death itself.
Marcus
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