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

[Colin Barrett]

Actually, consider this last message  voided.

After thinking about it longer, I think I would rather mentor than be  
a student developer.

-Colin

On Apr 25, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> 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
>
>
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