From: Alex Riesen Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:50:16 GMT Subject: Re: GSoC project mentors Message-ID: <81b0412b0703090150r674e754bn921d86eb40563e2a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070309005940.GA32211@spearce.org> On 3/9/07, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > 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? > :-) 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.