[oi-dev] [developer] GSoC? Decision time....

[Garrett D'Amore]

Count me as a conditional mentor.  I’ll go ahead and register.  I really don’t want to mentor overseas people though — indeed I really only want to work with students who are able to meet in person at least once or twice during the period and over phone/skype at regular intervals.  The rationale here is more about my ability to be an effective mentor than anything I have against remote workers in particular — the past few times I’ve mentored I just think I’ve not been effective at helping my students.

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Garrett D'Amore
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On February 13, 2014 at 9:14:40 AM, Albert Lee (trisk at nexenta.com) wrote:

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett.damore at gmail.com> wrote:

We have about 24 hours to decide whether we are going to do GSoC this year.

Do we have mentoring volunteers and a coordinator willing to do so, and with sufficient time?  I can mentor someone in So Cal, but experience is that most candidates for GSoC come from overseas.


After talking to others, I've been convinced that it's a good idea to continue participating this year, and I'm willing to be the organisation admin provided we try to size projects appropriately to account for risk, testing and review. I'm working on the application.

If anyone has strong objections let me know. If OI is interested in applying as well we should coordinate to see if a combined application is appropriate. Slots can be divided amongst the respective mentors.

Gordon has volunteered as a mentor.

-Albert

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Albert Lee <trisk at nexenta.com>
Nexenta Systems, Inc.
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