On Mar 7, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > Stefan Behnel wrote: >> >> Robert Bradshaw wrote: >>> Last summer we participated in Google's Summer of Code, which was a >>> great thing for the Cython project. I just wanted to start a thread >>> to coordinate our participation this next year. >>> >>> The timeline for mentoring organizations to apply is this this next >>> week--should we to try applying as a separate organization? >> >> I don't have much personal experience here, so it's hard to >> comment on >> what's better. I also don't think my personal life schedule permits >> mentorship. > > Disadvantages: There's the work of submitting the actual application, > which one shouldn't take on unless we know we want to participate. > > The number of possible mentors play a strong role here. > > Myself I was hoping to wait a month and see before I decide on > whether I > want to mentor. I hope (though nothing is decided!) to be able to > mentor a > student for a year-long university project on Cython here in Oslo, and > mentoring for a full year of work will definitely have higher > priority for > me than two months (as the investment overhead in getting somebody > to know > coding in Cython is likely comparable in the two cases). That taken in > consideration I now have second thoughts on mentoring in GSoC; the > same > amount of mentorship in autumn can potentially pay off more in > amount of > code written. > > So to get things declared, I'm unfortunately only a "maybe" on the > mentorship side, at least right now.
I'm a "probably," but it's sounding like at this point we don't have enough potential mentors to be a full mentoring organization unless someone else stands up. On the numerical side of things, perhaps a NumPy person would be willing. On the other hand, I think we're higher on Python's radar than last year, so I'm hopeful of at least getting one (maybe two) spots for them. The quality of the students and projects will play a huge role here--one thing I learned at the summit last year is that it's not even worth you time to go after sub-par projects (though good students are an extremely good return on the investment of mentoring them). - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
