[SoC] Mentorship Limits

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Frank wrote: "Ian and Simone also have two, but there seem to be lost of
java mentors to
spread these out a bit."

As long as we don't get a student application for OpenJUMP I'm might be able
to serve as a Mentor for a student working in Java. As a condition to this I
would need a reliable contact with the project in question.

Landon


On 3/30/07, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> What do folks think about the number of projects a person can mentor?  It
> is my feeling that *normally* a person should only mentor one project to
> avoid the students not getting enough attention from mentors with too much
> on the go.  But I don't feel this needs to be a hard and fast rule.
>
> Looking at the tentative assignments I see Wolf five projects.  Are there
> enough GRASS mentors to handle some of these?
>
> I also see Tim Keitt with two postgis projects.  Are there other postgis
> mentors?  I know of Mateusz, but he already has a GDAL project, and didn't
> feel up to some of the more esoteric postgis stuff.
>
> I am listed with 3, but one is being turned over to Daniel, and one will
> be
> dropped.
>
> Ian and Simone also have two, but there seem to be lost of java mentors to
> spread these out a bit.
>
> I'm inclined to leave the final decision on mentors taking on multiple
> students
> to the project PSCs.  But do think that five is too many unless Wolf is
> prepared to spend his summer doing little else.
>
> As far as I know we can still add additional mentors, so perhaps there is
> a
> need to beat the bushes for some more GRASS mentors?
>
> Best regards,
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