XSF Discussion - 2018-01-21

Are there issues with the hosting again? ns1.xmpp.org / ns1.jabber.org appears non-responsive

Kev_, might explain the connection issue you saw ^

I'm having regular connectivity issues with the jabber.org domain too.

la|r|ma, and I didn't prevent your from joining those meetings. and never would have. As you, I don't see why mentors should be required to be present in these meetings, and I don't see why they should be mandatory for students.

Flow: This motivation by group thing *requires* a group, and it especially requires the better students to be present, even though they benefit less (or not at all)

I understand that some may drain motiviation from that meetings, but I don't think it's part of the students GSOC job description to motivate other students (by joining weekly meetings). After all there are usually weekly blog posts, and you can also engage with the other students outside of the meeting hour(s). Also not all students need that motivation while some students will join the meetings most of the time anyways. Hence I'm not sure if it is justified to make the meeting mandatory for the students.

Flow, It's part of the Org Admin job description to be responsible for all the students, and all the mentors, though.

Dave Cridland, I didn't dispute that