GSoC Mentor Conference
Last night, food at Amarin Thai was very enjoyable, they just were a bit overloaded with the number of people when we overwhelm them ;)
Got up around 7am, took the shuttle to the Googleplex at 8am. Breakfast at Google. Opening remarks by Chris and Leslie.
First I participated a session on “GSoc Screening Students”, very valuable, session notes can be found here.
Listened to “Google Code Hosting” talk by Jason Robbins. It seems to be quite ambitious, centered around svn, offers a nice/very flexible issue tracker and you can just cherry pick the parts that you need. Quote: “We are building the hosting environment that we want to use ourselves, based on our experience with OSS projects”.
Lunch.
Attended Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick’s “Poisonous People” talk. Just great! (You can find a nice summary of this that here.)
Stayed in the Tunis meeting room for the rest of the day, to listen to a panel on what Google/GSoc can do to help FLOSS and enjoyed “sticky questions” afterwards. Closing comments / roundup.
Off to Ristorante Don Giovanni for dinner.
Conclusion: Like Marty Connor put it “many thanks to our hosts at Google for inviting us to the GSoC Mentor Conference, and to all who attended and made it such a successful, memorable time!”. We really had a great time!