On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 00:39 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > > > First, what organization is Haskell.org? > > > > That would be us, right here. Anyone who is interested enough in > > Haskell to be involved in mailing lists, IRC, distributing library code > > and tools, whatever. > > > > > Is this a real organization, i.e., a legal entity? > > > > No. (Unlike e.g. the Apache Foundation.) > > Doesn’t this create problems in conjunction with the Summer of Code or is > Google tolerant regarding the legal status of participating organizations?
It didn't cause any problem last year. > > > What are the obligations of a mentor? > > > > (a) To carefully read and vote on quite a lot of student proposals. > > (b) If chosen to mentor a funded project, to guide the student throughout > > the project time, primarily by email (and/or IRC). Also to write > > two reports on progress (mid-term and final), that directly > > determine whether the student gets paid. > > Hmm, I might be able to do (b) but doing (a) seems to demand more time than I > could spend. Is there any possibility to only do (b) for a concrete project > I have in mind? I think (b) takes more time actually. You have to be able to be available a few hours a week to talk to the student. Over the 3 months, that's a good deal more than the few hours spent initially in the process of ranking student applications. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
