On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Nicola Pero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Specifically I am thinking of Richard, who would be the ideal mentor for > > this project. Nicola comes second to my mind, but if none of them would > > take it, I am willing to step in. This is surely the application that > > will need more support. > > I was a mentor last year, but there are a lot of other people who would be > excellent mentors, so I think we should rotate - unless there's > a special reason (eg, we get more students if we have more mentors) > I'll give it a miss this year and let someone else do it. :-)
I think that's the case in fact :) so don't hesitate. > Btw I enjoyed it last year because Chris was a good (and very nice) student, > but had a hard time finding the time to follow him properly as I'm > already swamped - like most other people I think - by projects/things to do. > Next time I do it I'll allocate lot more time for it, and I recommend > to everyone who will be a mentor to think about the time it takes in > advance. It's worth it (I look forward to my next mentoring), but > if you want to do a good job with your student, you'll have to follow > him/her very regularly. :-) I think it may be great to try giving more regular feedback on the mailing list this year -- I didn't really track the progresses last year but would have been interested. Something as simple as each student sending an email with a few lines of text every week describing the past week effort and the plan for the coming week would be great (nothing that'd take more than 5 minutes to write, really). -- Nicolas Roard "Java, the best argument for Smalltalk since C++ " -- Frank Winkler _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
