When have I ever disappeared or failed to keep a commitment I made? I do what I commit to do, always have, always will.
Ian. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Matthew Toseland <[email protected]>wrote: > On Monday 04 Mar 2013 22:33:21 Ian Clarke wrote: > > So I have one excellent student that wants to work on Tahrir this Summer, > > ideally as part of GSoC, I've already started to get him up to speed on > the > > codebase and his progress is impressive. > > > > Here is the trickier part: I have another student that has been working > on > > another open source project of mine called LastCalc, that is unrelated to > > Freenet. He has asked me whether he can work on it this summer as part > of > > GsoC. > > > > I assumed that doing the LastCalc project with Freenet as a mentoring org > > would be a non-starter since they aren't related (except through me), > > however I consulted the GSoC mailing list about it they said that it is > ok > > provided that Freenet is ok with it. > > > > So, does anyone have a strong objection to this? I can't think of any > > reason why anyone would given that I'm willing to mentor both projects. > > > > Matthew, I know that you thought mentoring two projects would be too much > > work, however I already have three students that I work with, two on > > Tahrir, one on LastCalc. I spend several hours a week with each of them, > > so actually no less work than would be required of me as a GSoC mentor, > and > > it works well. > > If you disappear, or fail to keep up with the workload, we're ****ed. > What's your contingency plan? > -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: [email protected]
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