GSoC Student Engagement

[Ilmari Lauhakangas]

On 29.4.2021 6.57, Nick Vidal wrote:
> This is Nick Vidal from Rocket.Chat
> 
> We’ve been part of GSoC for 5 years now, and as a way to celebrate and
> give back to the open source community, this year we are reaching out
> to other GSoC organizations to provide assistance on setting up
> Rocket.Chat to engage with students (pro bono).
> 
> Rocket.Chat is a leading open source chat platform, and we’ve been
> using the platform itself to engage with our own GSoC students. With
> Rocket.Chat, it’s possible to create private/public channels for each
> student/project so that mentors and students can communicate, share
> ideas, and keep track of progress both asynchronously and in real
> time. It’s also possible to create integrations to display pull
> requests, mergers, and issues directly on these channels.
> 
> Please let me know if you would be interested in trying Rocket.Chat to
> engage with your GSoC students. Myself and the Community Engagement
> team are at your full disposal to help. Our mission is to serve the
> open source community!

Thanks for the offer. We use freenode IRC service to communicate and 
will continue to do so.

Ilmari