Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-community-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-community-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EA4A3D92 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:30:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 86992 invoked by uid 500); 28 Apr 2011 21:30:17 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-community-dev-archive@community.apache.org Received: (qmail 86937 invoked by uid 500); 28 Apr 2011 21:30:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@community.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@community.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@community.apache.org Received: (qmail 86929 invoked by uid 99); 28 Apr 2011 21:30:17 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:30:17 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [82.71.204.225] (HELO cpanelsmarthost1.zen.co.uk) (82.71.204.225) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:30:07 +0000 Received: from [82.71.204.9] (helo=zencphosting06.zen.co.uk) by cpanelsmarthost1.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFYmQ-0002e8-TU for dev@community.apache.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:29:46 +0000 Received: from nat1a.vpn.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.119.242] helo=[10.16.20.85]) by zencphosting06.zen.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFYmQ-0008OG-H2 for dev@community.apache.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:29:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4DB9DC46.8050405@apache.org> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:29:42 +0100 From: Ross Gardler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Regarding Community Bonding References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - zencphosting06.zen.co.uk X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - community.apache.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apache.org X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 28/04/2011 19:38, siddharth srivastava wrote: > Hi > > I am a GSoC 2011 student for Derby. Welcome to the ASF > This email addresses a topic a bit different from the usual gsoc recommended > "community bonding". > > I was just wondering that is there a channel/group for gsoc students or > apache mentoring programme students and other interested people to interact, > share ideas and get familiar with each other ? Currently we don't have anything like that, no. There may be some interest in the idea though. I'd suggest the right location is right here. Admins, do you think this is a good idea? If so can you send out an email to mentors encouraging them to notify their students. > In my opinion, there should be a channel ( preferably IRC like #apache-soc > or #apache-discuss ) so that students and experienced developers from all > over Apache may get a platform for knowing each other. I think that would be > important and nice for developers/students/other related people to get > familiar. We don't use IRC as official channels for communications as they are synchronous and thus not good for a community that is distributed across the globe. However there are a few informal ASF channels, not being an IRC user I'm not sure what they are. Perhaps someone else here can tell you. Ross