[SoC] Mentors - Please review, comment and offer to mentor!

[Frank Warmerdam]

Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
>> Folks,
>>
>> We have 14 project applications from 12 students.  Please comment no, and
>> rate application that apply to projects you are involved in.  Most 
>> importantly,
>> if you think you would be willing to mentor the student for the project,
>> please indicate this on the review form.
> 
> I was wondering does anybody know if it's possible to have more than one 
> mentor for a project/application? OR if more than one person applies to 
> mentor, how it is later decided?

Paul,

There has to be one formal mentor for any student+project that gets accepted.
If more than one mentor offer we will work it out here on this list, likely
on the recommendation of the appropriate PSC (ie. GRASS PSC).

I have been offering to mentor any student application that I feel comfortable
I can handle with the understanding that ultimately I will only mentor one.
So it is helpful for any developer willing to mentor a given application to
sign up indicating this.

>> There are proposals for at least GRASS, PostGIS, uDig, lacking anyone 
>> willing
>> to mentor them.  Also, I'm the only GDAL mentor signed up for all four 
>> GDAL
>> proposals - Mateusz, Daniel and Howard - please indicate if you would be
>> willing to mentor some of these.
>>
>> Note that offering to mentor doesn't lock you into the role yet, but we
>> need offers on record before Google evaluates how many student slots to
>> offer us.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here - surely if someone says they would be 
> willing to mentor and then later decides that they are not, that it 
> would reflect very badly on OSGeo? (Unless I supose there is another 
> fall-back mentor for that particular application...)

We still have a process to go through of doing final approvals.  I don't
think offering to mentor now, and then pulling out before we select and
approve projects is a problem though you shouldn't offer to mentor unless
you think you are likely to to be willing.  But if you hold back now with
the intention of offering later, then you will find that we (OSGeo) have
lost the slots we might have gotten for any student applications with no
one offering to mentor.

Best regards,


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