sagesharp
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5 years ago I've been rethinking this issue a bit for this round. I think there's a simpler way of telling applicants about communities and projects that may be participating in GSoC. We want to put most of the work on coordinators, to avoid overloading mentors. We also don't want to reveal to mentors who is a student in order to avoid biasing them. (It's fine if the applicant volunteers that information, but we shouldn't provide that information to mentors.)
New plan:
- [ ] When coordinators sign up, ask them whether the community will be participating in GSoC. Add a new BooleanField to
class Participationthat's calledparticipating_in_gsoc. Add a new optional URLField that's calledgsoc_project_listtoclass Participationthat's the URL for the community's Google Summer of Code project list. - [ ] Add a link to the Community read-only page with a button that says 'Update GSoC participation'. It should take them to a view to edit the Participation, but perhaps only show them the participating_in_gsoc and gsoc_project_list fields.
- [ ] Add a new automated email to coordinators. It should ask the coordinator to update whether they're participating, and what the GSoC project list URL is. The email should provide them with the information they've already provided, so coordinators can see at a glance if the info is correct. Include a link back to the URL to edit the gsoc fields in the Participation object.
- [ ] The email to coordinators should be sent after the GSoC communities are announced. The Outreachy organizers need a reminder on their dashboard and a link to send the email at the right time. You'll need to add a new optional DateField to RoundPage to store the date that GSoC communities are announced. The dashboard code has a class-based view (SendEmailView) that we can use to make sure the reminder to send that email shows up on the organizer dashboard. You can check in that class whether the new DateField is set.
- [ ] Add a new informational text box to the top of the contribution recording page. Only show it to applicants who have marked they are currently students. It should say something like, "[COMMUNITY] is participating in another internship program called Google Summer of Code (GSoC). If you want to increase your chances of being accepted as an intern, you may wish to apply to GSoC. Please note that GSoC has a different internship stipend than Outreachy. GSoC may pay less than Outreachy, depending on which country you live in."
- [ ] When a coordinator updates their Participation to say they are participating in GSoC when the previous state was that they are not participating in GSoC, send anyone who was a student who recorded a contribution an email about it.
We often have projects that are listed in both Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Sometimes a project is only listed in Outreachy because of mentor preference.
When a project is listed in both Outreachy and GSoC, we can increase the chances of an applicant getting accepted by encouraging them to apply to GSoC. Outreachy has a limited amount of funds, and if the intern is willing to accept a pay cut (depending on which part of the world they live in) then it's beneficial for them to apply to both programs.
GSoC will announce accepted communities on February 12. On that date, we want to email all mentors from a community participating in GSoC and ask them to mark their project as participating in GSoC or not. Ideally this button would be hidden from the project page until the day they receive confirmation that their community is accepted into GSoC.
Add a new NullBoolean field to the Project class. "None" means a mentor hasn't said whether this project is participating in GSoC. "True" means the project is participating in GSoC. "False" means it's not participating in GSoC.
On the project landing page, add information about the project participating in GSoC. Link to GSoC application instructions. Warn applicants about the pay decrease, and link to GSoC's list of payment amounts per country. Tell them they will increase their chances of getting accepted if they are willing to take less of a stipend.
Once a mentor indicates that their project is participating in GSoC, email all applicants who have submitted an application to tell them they can apply to GSoC (ideally with the same text as what we put on the project page). This last step will need to be implemented after we get the new application system in place.