Hi,
On 9 March 2010 14:51, Koen Deforche <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Mobi,
>
> 2010/3/9 mobi phil <[email protected]>:
> > one more question... never had to do with GSoc... what does it involve
> > "mentor" ?
>
> My experience with GSoC is limited to reading, but the way I
> understand it is that GSoC defines three kinds of parties:
>
> - Students (that's obvious)
> - Mentors (that could be you)
> - Mentoring organisation (in this case, Emweb).
>
> The mentoring organisation coordinates the ideas, students and
> mentors. The mentor is responsible for following up on a student who
> takes on one of the Ideas, evaluating his work, provide guidance, and
> judge whether he succeeds or fails (gets his money or not). The mentor
> gets 500 USD for his work.
>
> Obviously, the mentor should be someone who has the knowledge, time
> and will to guide the student. Preferably he is the one that is the
> one who propose an idea and/or is the strongest advocate of it.
>
Just to clarify, IIUC the mentoring organisation gets $500 on behalf of each
mentor. I suppose it's possible for the mentoring organisation to distribute
the money, but that burden is on the mentoring organisation itself.
Mentoring a student takes more time than most people expect. The benefit is
more Kudos than financial: it's more from getting someone else to implement
your (usually overambitious) idea(s); inviting new people into the community
and generally being able to get some cool stuff done by young, driven
individuals that may otherwise never see the light of day.
It'd be good to see some nice Witty updates to come out of the SoC.
Regards,
Darren
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