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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 :)

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[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.