Re: Google SoC

[Nicolas Roard]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Nicola Pero
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  > Specifically I am thinking of Richard, who would be the ideal mentor for
>  > this project. Nicola comes second to my mind, but if none of them would
>  > take it, I am willing to step in. This is surely the application that
>  > will need more support.
>
>  I was a mentor last year, but there are a lot of other people who would be
>  excellent mentors, so I think we should rotate - unless there's
>  a special reason (eg, we get more students if we have more mentors)
>  I'll give it a miss this year and let someone else do it. :-)

I think that's the case in fact :) so don't hesitate.

>  Btw I enjoyed it last year because Chris was a good (and very nice) student,
>  but had a hard time finding the time to follow him properly as I'm
>  already swamped - like most other people I think - by projects/things to do.
>  Next time I do it I'll allocate lot more time for it, and I recommend
>  to everyone who will be a mentor to think about the time it takes in
>  advance.  It's worth it (I look forward to my next mentoring), but
>  if you want to do a good job with your student, you'll have to follow
>  him/her very regularly. :-)

I think it may be great to try giving more regular feedback on the
mailing list this year -- I didn't really track the progresses last
year but would have been interested.

Something as simple as each student sending an email with a few lines
of text every week describing the past week effort and the plan for
the coming week would be great (nothing that'd take more than 5
minutes to write, really).

-- 
Nicolas Roard
"Java, the best argument for Smalltalk since C++ " -- Frank Winkler