<div>Frank wrote: "Ian and Simone also have two, but there seem to be lost of java mentors to<br>spread these out a bit."</div>
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<div>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.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Warmerdam</b> <<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Folks,<br><br>What do folks think about the number of projects a person can mentor? It<br>is my feeling that *normally* a person should only mentor one project to
<br>avoid the students not getting enough attention from mentors with too much<br>on the go. But I don't feel this needs to be a hard and fast rule.<br><br>Looking at the tentative assignments I see Wolf five projects. Are there
<br>enough GRASS mentors to handle some of these?<br><br>I also see Tim Keitt with two postgis projects. Are there other postgis<br>mentors? I know of Mateusz, but he already has a GDAL project, and didn't<br>feel up to some of the more esoteric postgis stuff.
<br><br>I am listed with 3, but one is being turned over to Daniel, and one will be<br>dropped.<br><br>Ian and Simone also have two, but there seem to be lost of java mentors to<br>spread these out a bit.<br><br>I'm inclined to leave the final decision on mentors taking on multiple students
<br>to the project PSCs. But do think that five is too many unless Wolf is<br>prepared to spend his summer doing little else.<br><br>As far as I know we can still add additional mentors, so perhaps there is a<br>need to beat the bushes for some more GRASS mentors?
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