Mentoring Insight project ideas at GSoC 2012

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

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On 03/05/2012 05:46 AM, María Leandro wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Yes, I was offline due to a family emergency. Asrob told me about
> it and I though that the best thing we can do to support you is
> mentor you as team. :)

That sounds great. Co-mentoring can really work out well, especially
for two busy people. Just be sure to stay in regular contact together,
as well as the student.

I did want to add that a mentor doesn't need to be an expert in the
system they are mentoring for. Instead you need to be able to:

* Help students write the best proposals they can, which is more than
just technical information.
** ... but you can help get the technical experts to review the proposal.
* Connect the student with the resources (technical, infrastructure,
etc.) to do their project.
* Keep track of the student's progress so she or he doesn't just
disappear without you even knowing.
* Be an advisor to the student on how to get things done the open
source way, in the Fedora Project.
* Take care of mid-term and final evaluations.

For example, I mentored Dimitris Glezos when he wrote the first
instance of Transifex as a GSoC project, and I had very little clue
about the programming technology. :)

- - Karsten

> Keep us updated!
> 
> El 5 de marzo de 2012 09:14, Buddhika Kurera 
> <bckurera at fedoraproject.org>escribió:
> 
>> Thats great, I was trying to reach Tatica in IRC too but she s
>> out of reach. Thanks a lot for your support.
>> 
>> I ll add those to the idea page soon.
>> 
>> Thanks for all :)
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Peter Borsa
>> <peter.borsa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey Buddhika,
>>> 
>>> I have just talked to María on IRC and there is a good news for
>>> you. I'll help you in mentoring and have a co-mentor, tatica. 
>>> What do you think? -- Peter Borsa http://asrob.net gpg
>>> fingerprint: EF52 EF5D 9604 E11C 8219  242B AB24 5B0B C6CD
>>> 1242
>>> 
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>>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Buddhika Kurera 
>>> <bckurera at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Peter Borsa
>>>> <peter.borsa at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I will ask tatica and I will think about it. --
>>>> Thats nice, I am waiting for an answer :)
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora
>> Ambassador Sri Lanka Event Liaison - Design Team
>> 
>> Email: bckurera at fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera
>> 
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