On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Xavier Glattard wrote:
I don't know what are the requirements for mentors, but I would be
glad to help and take care of one small project :)
FYI, some info on Google's SoC:
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html
Being a mentor involves working with a student, answering questions,
making sure they are making progress and finishing their project. It
can take 5 hours or more per week depending on how much you put into
it, but by far the most important process is vetting the student
BEFORE they begin to make sure they really know what they are getting
in to and that they can do the work. It helps to live close to the
student (in the same country or speak the same language). We always
get a lot of European students. The unfortunate part is that Google
bases their calendar on the US school schedule which is often
different from European schedules.
The process works like this:
- You submit ideas for projects
- Students look over them and decide if they want to do them or
propose their own ideas
- You rank the students and their ideas by how good you think they are.
- Google gives you a set number of students they will fund. The top
ranking students then get funded.
A big factor in how many students google gives us is the number of
students who apply to work with us, so the more ideas and more
advertisement we get, the better chance to get more students and more
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