The past few years Vim was a project in the Google summer of code (SoC). This means a few students get paid for working on the Vim source code. This varied from fixing bugs to implementing new regular expression code.
This year I will be on a holiday halfway the months that the SoC is running. It's unacceptable for the students to be without guidance. Thus I'm wondering if there are a few people who feel that they will be able to help mentoring a student. Since there probably isn't a person who dares to do this by himself, the preferable way would be to make teams of at least two mentors per student. This can be mixed, e.g., being the main mentor for one student and the backup mentor for another. The main work will be: - Judging student applications before the SoC begins. - Keeping in touch with the student. Check that he is actually doing something useful. Help him make choices. I'll be around to help out, except for the three weeks I'm away. But it would be good for me to be the administrator, and assign a mentor to each student. Mentors can of course also help each other. If we can have a few volunteers that want to help out I can again apply Vim for the SoC. Otherwise we will have to skip a year. More information about the SoC: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ -- ERROR 047: Keyboard not found. Press RETURN to continue. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
