[SoC] Mentorship Limits
Jody Garnett
jgarnett at refractions.net
Fri Mar 30 17:37:39 EDT 2007
I believe multiple people can request mentoring a project - selection of
which mentor happens after?
Jody
> 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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