[SoC] Students are coming...

[Cory Horner]

in the next day or two...

What are we going to tell them?

http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors
http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/summer-of-code-mentoring-howto/index.html
http://www.red-bean.com/ospowiki/CommunicationProblems

Right off the bat we should hit them with a list of requirements, ie 
weekly meeting with mentor/progress report...

Thoughts:

- send an intro email right away
- everyone should let frank know that they have made contact with their 
student
- secondary mentors for each student (for improved communication when 
offline)
- get the students talking on devel mailing lists (emphasis with getting 
the student into the COMMUNITY)
- set them up with svn access (your code will live here) and such
- private mailing list for osgeo gsoc students only?
- blogging? (a blog post from each student, each week or two would be 
cool... and would make osgeo more visible -- there may be a group 
already hosting gsoc 2007 student blogs)
- each project should introduce the gsoc students on the mailing list
- osgeo will get $7500 from google as its mentoring stipend; will this 
(or a portion) be distributed to each project or held by osgeo?

More reading:

http://www.red-bean.com/ospowiki/SessionNotes/GsocStudents
http://www.red-bean.com/ospowiki/SessionNotes

Would someone care to break out some wiki pages for this? I am out of 
time...

Cheers,
Cory.