1) Please visit the following page to see the list of student
proposals:
http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/list_proposals/google/gsoc2010/beagleboard
2) Look in both the top section "List of new Student Proposals sent to
BeagleBoard.org" and the second section "Student Proposals already
under review sent to BeagleBoard.org" to review the list of proposals.
3) Provide comments visible to the student. This is the student's
only opportunity to update their proposal. If you have any simple
queries to enable them to prove they can execute the defined task,
please provide them.
4) If you believe you'd be a viable mentor for this student by having
had enough contact with the student to believe you can communicate,
having a reasonable level of confidence they understand their goals
and can execute them, etc., please sign up to be a possible mentor.
5) Provide a rating on each proposal.
Jason,
I will have trouble to do this seriously for every project... I got
involved with a few of them through the groups, e-mails and direct
contacts.
I already feel the pain of mentoring!
Now, do we have to do the final rating today?
How is the final decision done who gets accepted and who decides on
the mentors?
I still feel I am only good as a co-mentor due to my inexperience on
GSOC and a lower than average involvement in open source stuff
compared to others here.
Regards,
Frank
Jason,
I will have trouble to do this seriously for every project... I got
involved with a few of them through the groups, e-mails and direct
contacts.
I already feel the pain of mentoring!
Now, do we have to do the final rating today?
No, final rating is not required today. We just need to make sure
there is some feedback for every project. Not every mentor has to hit
every one, but at least if it is in your area of interest or you see
there hasn't been a reply to the student.
How is the final decision done who gets accepted and who decides on
the mentors?
I believe that Google looks at our ratings and makes their own
decision.
I still feel I am only good as a co-mentor due to my inexperience on
GSOC and a lower than average involvement in open source stuff
compared to others here.
Fair enough, but I hope we can count on you to be in touch with your
student on a regular basis and help them problem-solve, even if it
simply means escalating to other members of the community and
following-up. The students will often need to learn that skill and
you will need to reinforce it with them.
Jason,
I will have trouble to do this seriously for every project... I got
involved with a few of them through the groups, e-mails and direct
contacts.
I already feel the pain of mentoring!
Now, do we have to do the final rating today?
No, final rating is not required today. We just need to make sure
there is some feedback for every project. Not every mentor has to hit
every one, but at least if it is in your area of interest or you see
there hasn't been a reply to the student.
How is the final decision done who gets accepted and who decides on
the mentors?
I believe that Google looks at our ratings and makes their own
decision.
I think that to, but I am also thinking that is wrong. There has been a lot of talk about how Google will allocate slots to projects on the mentor list. Whatever happens, we need to help students create good proposals before we rank them.
I still feel I am only good as a co-mentor due to my inexperience on
GSOC and a lower than average involvement in open source stuff
compared to others here.
Fair enough, but I hope we can count on you to be in touch with your
student on a regular basis and help them problem-solve, even if it
simply means escalating to other members of the community and
following-up. The students will often need to learn that skill and
you will need to reinforce it with them.
If I had time, I would consider mentoring students outside my primary area of interest. I think a good bit of the mentoring is just helping the student stay on track and not get stuck on problems.
Philip
> Fair enough, but I hope we can count on you to be in touch with your
> student on a regular basis and help them problem-solve, even if it
> simply means escalating to other members of the community and
> following-up. The students will often need to learn that skill and
> you will need to reinforce it with them.
If I had time, I would consider mentoring students outside my primary
area of interest. I think a good bit of the mentoring is just helping
the student stay on track and not get stuck on problems.
yes, I can stay in touch regularly. Especially for anyone in EMEA
region.
I am mainly looking for projects that are work-related so that I have
more arguments with my boss to spend time more on that if required.
Obviously I would also be interested in many of the other projects as
they sound real exiting. However I have a family with three kids which
normally keeps me busy outside of work hours anyway. My older son (15)
just started to get interested in robotics which might change the
picture a bit...
But it seems we are not short mentors anyway, right? So I could spent
my first year at GSOC as co-mentor and then we see what happens next
year...
Frank