Re: Possible mentor for Summer of Code project

[Daniel Kraft]

On 04/05/11 16:04, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 2011/4/5 Daniel Kraft<address@hidden>:
> > On 04/05/11 00:13, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > > > I got a response from Ralf Wildenhues that he likes the idea, so my
> > > > question is:  Does anyone want to mentor, in case the application
> > > > gets accepted?
> > >
> > > Jaroslav had said he would like to mentor, but he seems to be busy
> > > with his day job nowadays.
>
> > Regarding a mentor, I believe that the most important part is to
> > have someone "officially" mentoring the proposal
>
> I can provide basic guidance around the Octave sources. If that's all
> that a mentor officially needs to be and we can still rely on the
> mailing list at large to answer specific questions about profiling
> then I can do it. My understanding, however, was that the mentor also
> had to go through the application process, so Google will probably
> want to see a mentor like Jaroslav who could help with the specific
> questions. Can you confirm or deny?

Since I (of course) never was a mentor myself, I can not provide 
"definite" answers.  But appart from that, I'm pretty sure that from 
Google's side it is entirely the organization's choice who mentors whom. 
 I think that a real application-and-acceptance thing is there only for 
the organizations and now the students.

So I think that what is necessary is that in case my proposal gets 
accepted by the GNU people deciding on that (whoever that is) there's 
someone willing to be officially the mentor; from my side, I'm 
completely ok with asking the mailing list for help on specific 
questions, so I wouldn't have any problem with you doing the mentoring.

Overall, I think with your commitment as above or possibly Jaroslav 
stepping in, this should be fine and hopefully enough in order to 
consider my proposal ;)

Yours,
Daniel

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