Nirav, If I write a proposal on the Ideas page for 'sugargame' (a fork of PyGame with Sugar specific features such as the ability to mix GTK and PyGame in a single activity), would you feel up to mentoring that?
Cheers, Wade On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Nirav Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Gsoc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc
