Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13)
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
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- Feb 19, 2013, 08:12 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> The short undiplomatic version of that is that our mentors suck (I'm >> not pointing fingers, but that's what I infer from failing projects). > > Hold on a second. I'm not remembering such a grim outcome with 100% > failure from prior summers of code as you're describing. Before I > start beating myself up, I guess I'd like a little more information > --- is there some specific project or statistic that you're thinking > of that brings you to that conclusion?
In retrospect, I might have been unnecessarily harsh there.
One of the main measures of a mentor's success, in my opinion, is having his student stick around after the Summer of Code: the mentor is the student's primary link to the community. There have been 4~5 students every year, times 6 years (is that how long we've been participating?). How many of those students have felt part of the community?