See lots more info about mentoring on the GSoC FAQ: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page.
Here is a quote from the page: """ Each mentoring organization is expected to provide: - A pool of project ideas for students to choose from, publicly published by the mentoring organization as an Ideas list (At least) two organization administrators to act as the project's main point of contact for Google - A person or group responsible for review and ranking of student proposals, both those proposals which tie into the org's Ideas list and "blue-sky" proposals - A person or group of people responsible for monitoring the progress of each accepted student and to mentor her/him as the project progresses - A person or group responsible for taking over for a student's assigned mentor in the event they are unable to continue mentoring, e.g. take a vacation, have a family emergency - A written evaluation of each student participant, including how s/he worked with the group, whether you would want to work with them again In addition to these responsibilities, a mentoring organization should actively encourage each student developer to participate in the project's community in whichever way makes the most sense for the project, be it development mailing lists, idling in the project's IRC channel, participating in the project's forum, etc. A truly successful mentoring organization will work diligently to ensure that as many of their students as possible remain active project participants long after the conclusion of the program. """ This quote is also relevant: "While the answer to this question will vary widely depending on the number of students a mentor works with, the difficulty of the proposals, and the skill level of the students, most mentors have let us know that they underestimated the amount of time they would need to invest in Google Summer of Code. Five hours per student per week is a reasonable estimate." --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote: > That's actually a good question for Matt. What exactly will a mentor be > doing? > > Maybe I shouldn't have signed up for something without knowing what it is :) > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Jeff Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am supportive of this. And I am willing to talk about problems and >> issues related to the project. I am less willing to take on an official >> role. Not sure what a "mentors" responsibilities are. >> >> Jeff >> >> >> >> From: nupic [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chetan >> Surpur >> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:24 AM >> To: NuPIC general mailing list. >> Subject: Re: [nupic-discuss] Help with ideas for Google Summer of Code >> >> >> >> If either of them are up for it, that would be great. Otherwise, I can >> interface between them and the student as necessary, since I've been sitting >> with them discussing these ideas. Subutai, Jeff, just let me know what you'd >> like to do. >> >> On Feb 19, 2014 1:47 AM, "Vinh" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm the person who added # 4. Actually, I expected Jeff and Subutai to be >> mentors for this one because the new TP is Jeff's ideas and he's probably >> still working >> on it. Subutai is more familiar with the current TP and SP implementation >> than most of us. >> Furthermore, Jeff and Subutai did have experience experimenting with >> vision problems before >> so it might be a big help for this one. But, Chetan, if you're familar >> with TP and SP code >> and you understand Jeff's new ideas enough, you're welcomed to be the >> mentor for this task. >> >> Cheers, >> Vinh >> >> On Wednesday 19,February,2014 02:33:33 AM SGT, Chetan Surpur wrote: >> >> I've assigned myself to #4, but if the person who added it wants to be >> a mentor, feel free to replace my name with yours. >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hey all, one more thing I would like to get is volunteers for mentors >> for each project. If you come up with one of these ideas, it would be >> excellent if you could list yourself as a "mentor" in the wiki. Each >> idea needs to have a mentor assigned at some point, and the earlier we >> assign the, the better our chances will be. >> >> I've assigned myself as mentor for a couple of them. Please do the >> same if you have the time to help. >> >> >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#howmuch >> >> --------- >> Matt Taylor >> OS Community Flag-Bearer >> Numenta >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > I'd like to submit NuPIC as a Google Summer of Code[1] project >> this year. In >> > order to do this, I need to put together a list of ideas[2] for >> student >> > projects involving NuPIC. I'm looking for some help with this >> list. If you >> > have any cool ideas that a student might be able to build with >> NuPIC, please >> > add to this list: >> > >> > >> >> https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2014:-Ideas-List-for-NuPIC >> > >> > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 >> > [2] >> > >> >> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#3._What_is_an_Ideas_list >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > --------- >> > Matt Taylor >> > OS Community Flag-Bearer >> > Numenta >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
