Hi Ross, I'm interested in for the Lenya project.
But I'm just a commiter and I ask myself if I can be a mentor for such a program ? For sure, I could be a "friendly face" ! :) cced d...@lenya ++ On 12/14/2010 10:25 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Below is the text of a mail I sent to the PMCs last night. Copied here > for information: > > Over the next few weeks your project may be approached by students > participating in a European Commission funded project called OpenSE [1]. > These students will be looking for GSoC style mentors in open source > projects. > > The headline info you need is: > > * Mentors will not need to commit as much time as they do to GSoC > > * The student/mentor relationship should be largely the same as any > other relationship with someone new to your project > > * Students will, in general, work on existing issues in your project, > but some may come with their own ideas > > * All work by the student should be managed and recorded using your > projects normal workflow > > * Students will not be full time on the project > > * Students will not be paid > > * Students will have external support from teachers and teaching assistants > > The key message for your project community is that this activity should > present minimal additional overhead to your normal community support > activities. > > Having said that, there are a few additional, but small, tasks we ask > you to perform during the course of a mentored project: > > * acknowledge your agreement to mentor a student > > * provide a brief evaluation of the students activities half way through > the project cycle (around 6 weeks in most cases) > > * provide a brief evaluation of the students activities at the end of > the project cycle (around 12 weeks in most cases) > > Each of these activities is recorded in a JIRA issue in the ComDev > project. This issue will be created by the student during the > application process. > > It is important to stress that we are not asking mentors to take any > responsibility for the success of the students work. All we ask is that > you act as a "friendly face" within your community and provide brief > evaluations as described above. > > Unlike in GSoC these students will (in most cases) be doing this work as > part of their formal education. All students will have external tutors > and teaching assistants helping them. Therefore, you should only need to > help them with their direct contributions to your project (design, code > review, applying patches etc.) > > Unlike in GSoC students will not be working full time on their projects > and thus the overhead on mentors will be considerably less. > > The Community Development project is encouraging and supporting this > activity in an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach to > helping students understand open source development whilst bringing some > valued patches to our projects. > > You can find some more information about the mentoring programme (which > will evolve in response to experiences and feedback in this experiment) > at http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html > > If you have any questions please mail dev@community.apache.org (or if > you explicitly want to seek out students for your project). > > If you agree to mentor a student all we ask is that you also subscribe > to the dev@community.apache.org list (it's low traffic) and touch base > with us now and again to let us know how things are going. > > Ross > On behalf of the Community Development Project > > [1] http://opense.net/
