Re: GSoC project mentors
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 9, 2007, 09:50 UTC
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- <81b0412b0703090150r674e754bn921d86eb40563e2a@mail.gmail.com>
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- <20070309005940.GA32211@spearce.org>
On 3/9/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? > :-)
yes, but it is a smaller one. And the suggestion was to commit to specific date and time.
> 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.
Me too. But I would gladly spent some time on IRC when I'm home, which usually is after 20:00 CET. Especially if I promised to.