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[denise]

We have been accepted as a mentoring org for Google Summer of Code!

They haven't decided how many students we get yet, but we may need extra mentors. Would anyone else be interested? It'd be a time commitment, but we'd get minions students out of it :)

Comments

[yvi]

Did I mention the YAY? Congratulations!

[foxfirefey]

I think you should link to what a mentor is and what they do!

[superluminal]

Mentors monitor students' progress and submit midterm and final evaluations of their work to Google; beyond that, there don't seem to be specific requirements, but AdviceforMentors on the GSoC Wiki has some useful advice. Also, from the Mentoring Guide:

Mentors are those people from the community who volunteer to work with a student. Mentors provide guidance such as pointers to useful documentation, code reviews, etc. In addition to providing students with feedback and pointers, a mentor acts as an ambassador to help student contributors integrate into their project's community. Some organizations choose to assign more than one mentor to each of their students. Many members of the community provide guidance to their project's GSoC students without mentoring in an "official" capacity, much as they would answer anyone's questions on the project mailing list or IRC channel.

[gchick]

Yay! Congratulations!

[cesy]

Depending on how work is going by that stage, I'd be interested in the community side of welcoming and mentoring people. Though I'm not a senior enough coder to help much on that side, I can probably still point them at the people who do know things.

[afuna]

Congratulations! (And applied -- talked to mark *g*)

[pauamma]

I'm willing, for a student not likely to be overwhelmed or exasperated by thoroughness in reviewing. (Which may be a serious problem, so I'll understand if that makes you think twice.)

[foxfirefey]

Well, I went and looked over the projects. I don't know if I'd be able to mentor all of them, but if a mentor is needed and I have the appropriate skillset for the project involved, I am willing to do so.

[delight]

I really really want to apply as a student (since summer is the time when I spend half my time sitting at a computer at odd hours when most people are not awake, so unlike the rest of the entire year I'd actually have time to learn something!), but I don't have a clue what I would actually want to work on. Siteschemes are the only things that don't confuse me!