On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Steve Poole <[email protected]>wrote:
> Google opens its doors soon for Summer of Code submissions (see here > http://code.google.com/soc/) ( ASF's standpoint is here > http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor) Its sounds like a > great > way to get students into open source and to get some ideas into code.I can > see many places in Kato where we could benefit from the help (and give the > students a real challenge). > > I'm more than happy to provide mentoring to students (done it more than a > few times) . However I think apart from our estimed mentors we're not > really ready to help students learn about the ways of open source. Am > I > being to conservative ? > There have been GSoC students doing projects relating to Incubator podlings with mentors from the podling in the past so it is possible. The ASF GSoC page does suggest mentors should be an Apache member or experienced committer but I've not seen that strictly policed. There has been talk of trying to give students multiple mentors, so if you get a student with a Kato proposal accepted then you can always just recruit another experienced mentor to help if it becomes an issue - I've been a GSoC mentor in the past so I can help if came to that. ...ant
