Mentors : Things to be completed on or before 25th March

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

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On 03/20/2012 06:21 AM, Buddhike Kurera wrote:
> Hello Mentors,
> 
> The students application period will starts on 26th March.

Thanks for the reminder, things sure move fast in the GSoC world!

> As a result x The idea page[1] will be freeze from 25th March(ideas
> will no be accepted from this date), make sure your idea is on the
> wiki

Can I recommend we make that a "soft freeze" (aka "slushy")?

Students will come with ideas not on that wiki page, no reason not to
put the idea up on the wiki.

A mentor may come later than 25 March, but still attract students, and
we'd want the wiki to be updated.

Etc.

> x Every idea should have to have a mentor, having a co-mentor would
> be a plus. x Idea which does nt have a mentor will not be selected
> to the gsoc program therefore those ideas will be removed.

The mentor must be tied to the final application. In the past we've
had strong applications that attracted a mentor right before the
deadline. So shall we leave the possibility open by not removing the
idea? (We also like to have old ideas archived for future reference,
even if they never found a mentor.)

We could instead use an admonition such as:

{{admon/note|Idea does not have a mentor|This idea does not have a
mentor associated with it. You must have a mentor for the Summer of
Code application. An application without a mentor will be rejected by
Google. Go to
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding to get
information or help about finding a mentor for this idea.}}

Then we put that in each == Idea details == section that doesn't (yet)
have a mentor.

Cheers - Karsten

> If you are a mentor and willing to participate gsoc 2012 with
> fedora, please make sure, x Your idea is on the wiki x you have
> competed the required tasks[2] x read the mentors' manual[3]
> 
> If you are interested in gsoc but do not have your own idea
> consider mentoring a project from the students' idea list[4].
> 
> If you have completed above mentioned point please ignore this
> notification.
> 
> Enjoy summer coding !!
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012 [2]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012#Mentors [3]
> http://www.flossmanuals.net/gsocmentoring/ [4]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012/Students_Idea
>
> 
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