Hello Bram and all, I was one of the previous students. This summer I was planning to finish what I had started (the code checking extension, since I am a graduate student, working on it during the semesters is extremely hard). I am totally flexible about how to do this:
1. I can re-apply as a student. I would not need as much help from a mentor as a brand new student would. 2. I can apply as a mentor if you think I am qualified to. The student can work on CodeCheck.c or some other thing. 3. I can do this without actually getting associated with GSOC in an informal way. Take care, On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 08:04:30PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > 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 /// > > > -- Birgi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
