[Soc-coordination] Projects and mentors wanted for our participation in upcoming outreach programmes

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Gunnar Wolf:
> Nicolas Dandrimont dijo [Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 05:12:30PM +0100]:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> Some of you have been waiting for it, and it's finally time: we are looking for
>> mentors and project ideas for Debian's next participation in outreach
>> programmes, from May to August 2016.
>>
>> Thanks to our sponsors, we will be participating in the 12th round of Outreachy
>> [1], and we have applied as a mentoring organization for the 2016 edition of
>> Google Summer of Code [2].
>> (...)
>> If you would like an intern to participate in your corner of Debian during the
>> next few months, here is your opportunity! Go to our Projects Ideas page [3],
>> describe your idea using our template, and give us a heads-up on the mailing
>> list [4]. As we're participating in Outreachy, all kinds of projects are welcome,
>> whether technical in nature or not.
> 
> Hi, Nicolas, and other SOC people.
> Hi, fellow keyring-mainters,
> 
> I have been trying to get some interesting data out of doing
> historical analysis of our keyring, as well as adding some health
> checks on it, getting some indicators, maybe see whether we are
> heading in the right direction or there is something we are missing. I
> have been quite short on time, so my work has slept for months.
> 
> I am targetting getting two kinds of output: On one side, something
> useful for Debian, both as documentation regarding our practices and
> the aforementioned keyring health indicators. On the other side, I
> want to get some publishable results; for that, I have been working a
> bit with people at my universities (on one, I am a teacher, on the
> other, I'm a graduate student). But any extra pair of hands and eyes,
> plus a keen set of neurons linking them together, might prove very
> useful.
> 
> I have not shared much of my work even with keyring-maint itself; I
> have at least one script that does interesting work, but is soooooo
> slow and suboptimal I'm rather interested in rewriting it from
> scratch. Anyway, I do have two bits of (very preliminary) output that
> can show approximately where I want this to be heading (both in
> Spanish, covering very similar work):
> 
> - Poster presented at a local conference: "Strengthening the web of
>   trust in a geographically distributed project' (oct 2015)
>   http://ru.iiec.unam.mx/2767/
> 
> - Corresponding presentation; very similar contents, in a presentation
>   format, as well as a (partly cut :-( ) video are available at
>   https://congreso.seguridad.unam.mx/2015/conferencia/fortalecimiento-del-llavero-de-confianza-en-un-proyecto-geogr%C3%A1ficamente-distribuido
> 
> So, if you think this is SOC material, I'll be happy to explain where
> I want to head next.


I think this sounds like a great gsoc project!

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