[Adium-devl] Summer of Code student/mentor wrinkle

[Colin Barrett]

On Apr 25, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> It _is_ perfectly okay for a student to participate as such in the  
> Summer of Code even if he is already involved in the project.
>
> It apparently is _not_ okay for someone to be both student and mentor:
> http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html#14
>
> Unfortunate.

And lame that they reveal this to us this late.

> It seems like one possibility would be for our non-students and  
> students who don't want to take on an SoC project to be official  
> mentors.  Students who want to take on a project are disqualified  
> from being a mentor, but we could establish mentorship as an  
> unofficial, inside-Adium assignment with someone else being the  
> official Google mentor.  Thoughts?

Gah, that's really annoying. :\ I'd made plans around doing both, and  
we had had positive signals from Google before. Had I known, I would  
have not signed up to mentor.

Can we get some kind of exemption or something (maybe?). A bunch of  
us had made plans around this, I know I have.

Are non-mentoring developers still going to get a chance to help with  
the chosing and sorting of applications?

This really sucks :\

-Colin