Re: [Banshee-List] 2013 GSoC Entriy

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Tarus Balog <tarus opennms org> wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 03:56 PM, Kevin Anthony wrote:
> > what does mentoring entail?
>
> You are basically holding the hand of the GSoC student and are their
> technical go-to person during the project.
>
> Our experience with how painful it is varies. Last year our project had
> a pretty good list of students. The pain level really depends on a few
> things - how difficult/complex is the project you're mentoring, how
> familiar are you with the topic and the technology involved and - most
> importantly - how self-reliant is your student.
>
> We've had a lot of great students capable of working largely on their
> own and that makes the process not suck so bad.
>
> Plus, you get US$500 from Google.

A clarification here: the $500 go to the organisation, so in our case,
GNOME or Mono. The mentor gets a t-shirt for Google, and hopefully
good work from a student.

This is a good page about mentoring for GSoC:
http://people.gnome.org/~federico/docs/summer-of-code-mentoring-howto/index.html

The GNOME pages for last year also have a lot of info:
https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012

--
Bertrand