[OSM-dev] Greetings Openstreet Community : GSOC queries

[Serge Wroclawski]

Ian,

> If you don't have something helpful to say then don't respond at all.

That's exactly what I was doing- telling the candidates something
helpful, which is that they should do some research into the project
that they're applying for before applying. Getting basics like the
name of the project wrong is likely going to come off badly to a
prospective mentor.

Also, where I was offering help, you were offering criticism, which
isn't very nice.

- Serge


On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> Serge, I appreciate the time you're taking to respond to these messages, but
> please remember that it's important to be welcoming, positive, and helpful.
> We're not going to gain any new developers if the first response they get
> after introducing themselves is a slap on the wrist for misspelling our
> project name.
>
> If you don't have something helpful to say then don't respond at all.
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ankit,
>>
>> I'm not the potential mentor on that project, but I am potentially a
>> mentor on other OSM projects.
>>
>> This is directed partially at you, but also to any other potential GSoC
>> candidates:
>>
>> While OSM mentors would not expect candidates to necessarily be long
>> standing members of the OSM community before applying (though this would be
>> best), if you don't even know the name of the project that you're applying
>> to, it doesn't make you look like a serious candidate.
>>
>> - Serge
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:46 AM, Ankit Kumar <ankitkmr at iitk.ac.in> wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings Openstreetmap Community,
>>>
>>>
>>> My name is Ankit Kumar and I am a third year student of Materials Science
>>> Engineering at IIT Kanpur, India.
>>>
>>> I am interested in knowing more about a project listed on OpenStreetmap
>>> GSOC Ideas page: Learning platform for Overpass API
>>>
>>> I hold some experience as in the Current semester, I am heading the
>>> development of SaaS project a cloud based extractive metallurgy simulation
>>> again using Python, numpy, scipy and its web frameworks flask and frontend
>>> with Bootdtrap and Javascript.
>>>
>>> Although I currently dont have knowledge of Overpass API query, learning
>>> it, I believe wont take more than week at max. So I satisfy the requisite
>>> skill need.
>>>
>>> Kindly guide how do I start working for this project ? Expectations in
>>> Proposals ?
>>>
>>> Kindly share any details that you would like to share or any questions
>>> that you may have for me regarding this GSOC project.
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think. Thanks a lot.