It's usually not too time consuming, maybe 5 hours a week. The key thing to stress is that all technical interactions w/ the mentee take place on the list. Off list mentoring is for personal issues (vacation, emergencies, etc.) The whole point is to teach how open source works.
On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Jason Baldridge wrote: > I'm happy to be a mentor. (I currently don't have time to put together a > proposal, but would happily comment on any.) > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> >>> Date: March 8, 2011 5:41:56 PM EST >>> To: [email protected] >>> Cc: [email protected] >>> Subject: Google Summer of Code 2011 is almost there >>> Reply-To: [email protected] >>> >>> Hello PMCs, >>> >>> Google Summer of Code is the ideal opportunity for you to attract new >>> contributors to your projects. >>> >>> If you want to participate with your project you now need to >>> >>> - understand what it means to be a mentor [1] >>> - propose your project ideas. Just label your issues with gsoc2011 in >> JIRA and >>> they will show up at [2]. See also [1]. >>> - subscribe to [email protected] (restricted to mentors, meant to >> be used >>> as a private list - general discussions on the public >>> [email protected] list as much as possible please) >>> >>> The ASF has applied as a participating organization with GSoC, your >> project >>> doesn't need to do that. See [3] for more information. Note that the ASF >> isn't >>> accepted yet, nevertheless you *really* should start recording your ideas >> now. >>> >>> Last year we had 39 students completing GSoC successfully, some of which >> are >>> now active contributors to the projects they worked on. Let's make this a >>> success again this year! >>> >>> On behalf of the GSoC 2011 admins, >>> >>> Uli >>> >>> [1] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html >>> [2] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2011tasks >>> [3] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html >> >> -------------------------- >> Grant Ingersoll >> http://www.lucidimagination.com >> >> > > > -- > Jason Baldridge > Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics > The University of Texas at Austin > http://www.jasonbaldridge.com -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com
