Thanks Joe,<div><br></div><div>I was a GSoC student in 2008 and have a pretty good idea of what's involved. I'm planning to work with a few Brown students in the next few months and will use that as a prep for GSoC.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>John<br clear="all">--<br>contact info:<br><a href="http://www.johndbritton.com" target="_blank">http://www.johndbritton.com</a><br>@johndbritton - <a href="http://twitter.com/johndbritton" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/johndbritton</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Joe Corneli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holtzermann17@gmail.com">holtzermann17@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi:<br>
<br>
I'm not qualified to mentor students for this project (and probably<br>
too busy to apply myself *as* a student) -- but I'd be happy to offer<br>
some words of advice about working with GSoC students in general,<br>
assuming you haven't done it before. Mainly, just like with P2PU<br>
courses, you must do what you can make sure the parties involved are<br>
highly committed! Otherwise you'll find people who make it to the<br>
half-way point and drop (they still get half the money, if they choose<br>
to claim it).<br>
<br>
Meeting the people in person isn't enough. Previous commits to the<br>
codebase isn't enough. Leadership in the project (Jessy) or in their<br>
own project (mystery persons who you haven't met yet) -- much better<br>
indication of success! Final word of "wisdom" is to value<br>
*communication* very highly. You don't want these people<br>
disappearing, but it's almost as bad if they don't document their<br>
work...<br>
<br>
Joe<br>
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:29 PM, John Britton <<a href="mailto:public@johndbritton.com">public@johndbritton.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I want to get some GSoC students working on Lernanta, anyone else interested<br>
> in being a mentor if I do the application?<br>
> <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline" target="_blank">http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline</a><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> John<br>
> --<br>
> contact info:<br>
> <a href="http://www.johndbritton.com" target="_blank">http://www.johndbritton.com</a><br>
> @johndbritton - <a href="http://twitter.com/johndbritton" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/johndbritton</a><br>
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