Re: GSoC 2013

Mats Lidell writes: Well, by "interest" I meant "volunteer mentors" and "interested students". It's not so obvious. ;-) Time, yes. It's pretty clear to me now that regular communication with the student is essential, and unfortunately often this needs to be mentor-initiated. Not true. *At least one* of the mentors *must* be a project leader personality, willing to make judgments about people he/she doesn't know very well. The direct mentor for a given student needs to be a bit of an extrovert (ie, enjoys working with others) and a good match for the student. (This is where the personal judgment thing comes in, you see. It's important to filter out students with good-looking projects who aren't a match for any available mentor.) If the student has good skills and motivation, but isn't so familiar with XEmacs, a "hobby developer" could be a good mentor in areas where they have enough knowledge to point the student in the right direction (including at more or less active core developers who know the area well -- at the present time that would include folks like Mike S who post about once a month and haven't committed in a while, but not Ben Wing who hasn't been visible here for a couple years). Unfortunately, there are infrastructure areas where we could potentially use a student (eg, improving the tracker), but Google is quite strict about projects being *coding* for *your* project. These aren't that stringent requirements if we have several potential mentors, because the important thing is the match. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta