On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Mark de Wever <[email protected]> wrote: > > I see the lack of mentoring power as a serious problem for this project. > IMO, like for GSoC, we need a full-time mentor for this project and > everybody volunteered to mentor for GSoC is already mentoring a GSoC > project. > > > Alternatively we might make this less of a mentorship scholarship > > (like GSOC) and simply a straight scholarship with minimal > > supervision. > > I think this is a bad idea. We offer a scholarship, a project for > somebody to learn something, which means we need somebody to guide that > person. IMO it also gives a bad signal if we try to attract a female > student and then don't have the time to guide her like we do with the > GSoC students. (Not to mention we want to reimburse their work with a > nice sum of money.) > > So IMO we need to either find a mentor to do it or postpone the female > scholarship project. If we postpone the project until after GSoC we > don't have to mentor the GSoC students and it would be easier to find a > mentor (I would volunteer). Of course it's aimed to be a summer project, > but on the southern hemisphere the summer is when it's winter on the > northern hemisphere. So with postponing it, it would give a better > chance to these students (a problem they often have with the normal GSoC > project as well). > >
I think this is a good point. Taking on a candidate without the kind of support that GSoC students receive might seem contrary to the goal of encouraging women developers. I think the idea of making it a summer project for the Southern Hemisphere is interesting and worth considering. One potential downside would be that there wouldn't be the same interaction with with the current GSoC students - which might be a nice environment to introduce prospective new developers. Would it be possible to try the first of these over the Winter (Summer in the S.H.), and then try for another such scholarship next summer alongside the GSoC? Another potential nuts-and-bolts issue would be how would this be advertised? GSoC provides many candidates through established mechanics, the Art scholarship has candidates rise up through the ranks in a sense, but how can we contact and interest prospective candidates from outside our community? Naturally advertising within the community would be a good idea also, but I am imagining casting a wider net for this project. George (Wintermute/happygrue) -- The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. "With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not so good street." - D.S.
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