<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Excited to announce that MacPorts has been accepted for another round of Google Summer of Code program [0].</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">[0]: <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5306590446485504/">https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5306590446485504/</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">- Umesh</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:54 AM, Jackson Isaac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ijackson@macports.org" target="_blank">ijackson@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Umesh,<br>
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Umesh Singla<br>
<<a href="mailto:umeshksingla@macports.org">umeshksingla@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi<br>
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> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 4:54 AM, Mojca Miklavec <<a href="mailto:mojca@macports.org">mojca@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Dear Umesh,<br>
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>> I would remove "secondary mentor" from the list of mentor who agreed.<br>
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> I removed the list of mentors completely and working on revamping project ideas for getting our application in. I have kept it here [1] which is not straight visible to students/GSoC admins and helps us to track.<br>
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</span>Thanks! The new Ideas page looks good and organized. Probably keep the<br>
mentors table below the Admins table, since GSoC team have been shared<br>
that particular page ? They would want to know who the mentors are<br>
this year. Now it looks like there are only admins.<br>
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>> It looks like we have almost no mentors this year.<br>
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> Even if we are able to pull at least one project, it should be good. Not participating at all actually reduces the number of students interested next year because they tend to work-with/contribute-to organizations which have participated in the previous year.<br>
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</span>This year looks promising from interest shown by mentors and projects<br>
they are coming up with. Thanks to the mentors too :)<br>
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--<br>
Jackson Isaac<br>
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