From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:59:40 GMT Subject: Re: GSoC project mentors Message-ID: <20070309005940.GA32211@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0703080804r5e2d933fqabab7306a5f0d6db@mail.gmail.com> Alex Riesen wrote: > On 3/8/07, Shawn O. Pearce 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.