On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn < [email protected]> 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. > I was digging into cython currently, to work full time(as a developer) on it. I am not a student, but I would like to have your help in understanding cython better so that I can start contributing to cython. > > So to get things declared, I'm unfortunately only a "maybe" on the > mentorship side, at least right now. > > Dag Sverre > > _______________________________________________ > Cython-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev > -- Regards, Anoop S. People who says, "It's not winning or losing that matters, but participation", probably lost.
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