W00t! So exciting! On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Rob Lanphier <ro...@robla.net> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > We've been accepted again for another Google Summer of Code! What this > means: > > * Mentors: please go to this page to formally apply to be a mentor: > http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/mentor/request/google/gsoc2010/wikimedia > > Note: you can't officially be a mentor until you do this, and we can't do > it > for you (part of it involves agreeing to the mentor agreement). > > Question for the group: how many student slots do you think we should > request? On the "advice for mentors page", it says: " > > A good rule of thumb when finding and assigning mentors is to have two > mentors per student. It is also a good idea to have a spare mentor or two > who can pay attention to many students and keep track of the big picture." > > > Given our current list of mentors (we have 9 listed, plus 1 "maybe"), that > would give us "4" as the number of slots. Does that seem like a number > that's both low enough that we can be reasonably confident we'll do a good > job mentoring, but high enough that we're not selling ourselves short? > > * Students: it's still not yet formally time to apply, but now is a really > good time to start brainstorming ideas, and getting clarifications on > what's > already been suggested: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010 > > While you may be tempted (from a competitive perspective) not to reveal > what > your ideas are early, it is almost certainly going to be to your benefit to > engage now. By "engage", I mean "demonstrate that you're really thinking > about how to improve MediaWiki and other Wikimedia project technologies, > and > have the wherewithal to do it", not merely "impress us with what skills you > have". The more specific and thoughtful your ideas, questions, and > suggestions are, the more comfortable we'll all feel in selecting you. > > You might want to take a peek at the GSoC student agreement now, since > you'll be required to agree to it as a precondition for being part of this > year's program: > > http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/studentagmt > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
