Well neither I have been a mentor, nor want to be. But if some help is needed I can.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]>wrote: > My experiences with GSoC were not all that positive. Therefore, I'm not > offering to be a GSoC mentor anymore. Well, maybe I should not have > taken two students at once but still, if the student isn't focused > enough, all the mentoring doesn't help. > > I do have an interest in building this PDFBox GUI. I could have used a > good tool for various PDF-related tasks many times. But I don't think I > can invest enough time to take up a lead position here. I'm happy to > invest some time for the design discussion and help with some coding. > > On 29.01.2010 13:07:18 Jukka Zitting wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 2010/1/28 <[email protected]>: > > > I like the idea. The question is... are there are enough people > willing > > > to dedicate the time to code this? > > > > I guess the original proposal was to start this effort as a Google > > Summer of Code (GSoC) project during next summer. That would give us a > > dedicated student working on the code, but we'd need to have someone > > from the PDFBox team who's ready to invest enough time and effort in > > mentoring the student through the summer. > > > > I've been a GSoC mentor a few times before, and it's quite rewarding > > especially if you have a motivated and skilled student to work with. > > However, effective mentoring does require consistent effort through > > the summer (I estimate some 2 hours per week) and unfortunately at > > least I can't promise to have enough extra cycles for that this year. > > > > BR, > > > > Jukka Zitting > > > > > Jeremias Maerki > >
