Re: GSoC project mentors

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 9, 2007, 00:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20070309005940.GA32211@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0703080804r5e2d933fqabab7306a5f0d6db@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 3/8/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> >
> >Being a GSoC mentor does have a time commitment.  You will need to
> 
> This is a problem. How about IRC schedules? Say, if some idea
> has not enough mentorship, it may have at least supporters on
> IRC who _commit_ themselves to that schedule. In this case
> the students can at least know when they are likely to get help.

Committing oneself to being on IRC is a time commitment, isn't it? :-)

IRC time is difficult for me; I do hang out there more often than I used to now that the community is doing the same, but I spend a good part of my week working from a network where IRC access isn't allowed.

Anyway, people did step up (thanks Pasky, Dscho, Brian, Martin, Martin!) and now most projects have more one mentor. This is exactly what I was hoping would happen.

-- 
Shawn.