We have started to get more and more students interested in our ideas for the GSoC Program. Any committer can volunteer as mentors, and being a mentor is not that difficult, and shouldn't take a lot of time from you... and I take it as basically giving help/attention to a new community member, and off course, the whole community is there to help as well. Having said that, I'd like to encourage people to volunteer as mentors by doing the following:
1) Start reviewing and commenting on current students proposals 2) Subscribe to code-awards if you haven't done so in past years by sending an e-mail to [email protected] 3) Register to the GSoC 2009 Application, and add your GSoC link Id to https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/GsocLinkId.txt 4) Pair with a student and click the "willing to be a mentor" in the GSoC app when time comes (see code-awards mails for this). If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to ask either here or in the code-awards mailing list. I have also added [2] and [3] as references here. [1] http://socghop.appspot.com [2] http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor [3] http://wiki.apache.org/general/RankingProcess -- Luciano Resende Apache Tuscany, Apache PhotArk http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/
