On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Jameson Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you'd make a great backup mentor, easily. We'll see, when the > projects come out, if there's a project that it would be OK for you to > mentor. I suspect that in order for you to be a full mentor, you'd need two > things. First, you'd need a good Socratic attitude; to be good at asking the > right questions to get people to solve their own problems. And second, a bit > of extra time to devote, as you play catch-up yourself on some issues. One > important part of a mentor's job is to help make visible progress on silly > frustrating issues - "my jhbuild is broken and I don't know why" - and > socratic questions only go so far in that direction. The right questions can > be "visible progress" for a day or two, but if you can't even code because > nothing works, you need real help. > > I'm including the gsoc list on this message, I hope you don't mind. > > Let me (us) know what you think. > > Jameson
This is an accurate assessment of my status and what being a mentor requires. Between "process consulting" with various non-profits and some tutoring/TAing during school, I believe I am capable of the first half. For the second, it depends largely on the specific project, but it is certainly best that I not primary mentor any projects I couldn't provide useful guidance on. At the current time, that would include most of the projects on the ideas page. Nirav _______________________________________________ Gsoc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc
