On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Matthew Toseland <[email protected] > wrote:
> 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. I'm not other mentors. I really think you're being a bit ridiculous here. It is hard enough to find one mentor for any given student, are you now saying that we can't take on a student unless we have both a mentor and a backup mentor? I find it hard to believe that any other project has such a stringent requirement. 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. > What is our mentoring policy for dealing with a civilization-ending asteroid? How about an alien invasion? Plague? A change in the fundamental laws of physics rendering computation impossible? Surely we can't take on any students without accounting for those possibilities? > 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. > For crying out loud. I am telling you that I will have time. I have always had time in the past. I have time RIGHT NOW when I am effectively mentoring 3 students outside the context of GSoC (I devote 1-4 hours per student per week). > 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... > A business commitment in Afghanistan? How likely is it that I would have a business commitment somewhere with no Internet access? > 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? > Firstly it is 2 students, not 3. I have 3 students currently outside the context of GSoC, but only two of them are interested in GSoC. Secondly, I have described my intention on the GSoC mentors mailing list and NOBODY, not one person has raised these concerns, or told me that we were limited to 1-mentor-1-student. > I apologise if this seems hostile It doesn't seem hostile, it seems ridiculous. > , but we HAVE had problems with disappearing mentors in the past In 12 years you have never had a problem with ME disappearing in the past. I have a 100% success record with not disappearing, and with living up to every commitment I've ever made related to Freenet. > , 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. I won't disappear. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: [email protected]
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