Hi,We would like to let you know that due to the lack of mentors and orgadmins, openSUSE won't participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC)[1]this year.In the last time, some people have claimed that participating in GSoCis not worthwhile and that we don't get anything out of it. Westrongly disagree with this statement. Many motivated students havegot to know and joined openSUSE thanks to GSoC (such as both of us).In our view, mentoring is one of the most important parts of an opensource project. Welcoming new contributors and investing some of ourfree time to help them makes openSUSE much more than just somesoftware, whose code is available online. It is not only about hackingand the number of students that stay in our community, but also aboutsharing our culture of working openly and creating awareness of theopen source movement in the next generation of developers. GSoC givesus the chance to reach students all around the world that most likelywouldn't hear about openSUSE in another way. In addition, it allowsstudents to work full time in open source projects by supporting themeconomically. Because of that, we hope to see openSUSE again in GSoC.This is the work that have been done in the last years and that may beuseful in case someone wants to bring openSUSE to GSoC in the future:- Mentoring page[2]- Mentoring page code[3]- Application[4]- Blog posts in news.opensuse.org[5]- Twitter mentoring account[6]Lastly, we would like to thank again all our passionate mentors andorg admins and everybody else who made possible that openSUSEparticipated in GSoC.Regards,Ana María Martínez GómezChristian Bruckmayer[1] - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com [2] - https://101.opensuse.org [3] - https://github.com/openSUSE/mentoring [4] -[5] - https://news.opensuse.org/category/project/mentoring/gsoc [6] - https://twitter.com/opensusementors --Ana María Martínez Gómezanamaria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxTo contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@xxxxxxxxxxxx