On Tuesday 05 Mar 2013 18:15:17 Ian Clarke wrote: > When have I ever disappeared or failed to keep a commitment I made? I do > what I commit to do, always have, always will.
Other mentors have disappeared. As an organisation we need to be able to deal with a mentor disappearing - the organisation application form may even ask what our protocol for dealing with disappearing mentors is, it has done so in the past, although two years ago it was simplified considerably iirc. If none of your students can be mentored by anyone else, and you don't have time to mentor them, then we will potentially have failed to fill in the evaluation on time for THREE students. Which will probably mean we never get onto GSoC again; it would measurably annoy the people running the programme. All that would have to have for this to happen is for you to disappear for a few days around the mid-term because of a business commitment you took on without checking the dates... Of course it's unlikely that Google will let you have 3 students anyway - last year the metric was 1 slot = 1 mentor with an allocated student IIRC. Or was that the previous year? I apologise if this seems hostile, but we HAVE had problems with disappearing mentors in the past, and you did ask for my opinion. Feel free to insist, in which case I will admin. But if you disappear I will not be able to evaluate your students, and I don't think anyone else will either. > > 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?
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