Google Summer of Code 2016: mentors and ideas wanted

[Mathias De Maré]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Mathias De Maré <mathias.demare at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> we'll try to participate in Google Summer of Code as a PSF (Python
> Software Foundation) sub-organization.
>
> To be able to do this, we need two important things:
> - An ideas page that is not empty. Please help fill the page with great
> ideas: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/Ideas2016
> - Mentors: we need people able to provide guidance to students during the
> coding period (May 22nd - August 23rd).
>

We're still looking for mentors and ideas. We need at least two mentors
(sadly, we only have 1 so far, not enough to be a Python suborganization)
and plenty of additional ideas.
Please have a look if you or your organization can provide some time or has
"things" (extensions, core features, ...) you'd like to see implemented. I
would expect plenty of ideas :)

Mentors page: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2016#Mentors
Ideas page: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/Ideas2016

Greetings,
Mathias

>
> What is not needed to mentor?
> - You don't need to be the most experienced or most technical Mercurial
> developer to mentor students (though some technical expertise and knowledge
> of the code base _is_ important).
> - You also don't need to be the expert in the particular area a student is
> interested in.
>
> What is needed to mentor?
> - Time and willingness to help: mentoring requires being involved with
> your student. That means pointing them in the right direction and helping
> them (not holding their hand at every point in time!)
> - You'll need to talk to your student at least once a week to guide them,
> preferably more.
>
> Interested in mentoring? Please send me a mail and add yourself to the
> list: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2016#Mentors
>
> The faster we get enough mentors, the faster we can apply :-)
>
> Greetings,
> Mathias
>
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