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

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Apr 25, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
> And lame that they reveal this to us this late. <snip> we had had  
> positive signals from Google before.
They didn't reveal anything -- I found that statement while reading  
the Student FAQ before posting to the Adium blog about the SoC page  
being up.  The information is not in the Mentor FAQ but i believe  
have been in the Student FAQ all along.

Looking at the email I sent to Leslie Hawthorne of Google:
----
Evan wrote:
> Are there any additional eligibility requirements for students  
> applying for the Summer of Code?  For example, several developers  
> and occasional code contributers to Adium are currently students;  
> can they apply as students for an Adium SoC project?

And Leslie replied:
> Yes, this would be fine.  http://code.google.com/soc/ 
> studentfaq.html#33
---
  I didn't specifically say "developers who want to mentor and be  
students;" I asked if it was okay if developers on the team applied  
as students.  I thought I was asking the former question, but upon  
reflection the actual words I used don't necessarily mean that  
developers want to sign up as mentors and as students... instead, the  
question looks just like "can people involved in the project already  
be SoC students?" which they can.

I'll email tomorrow and see if this is a fast and hard rule or if  
it's something we can work around.

> Had I known, I would have not signed up to mentor.
We can undo mentor sign ups; nothing is permanent right now.

> Are non-mentoring developers still going to get a chance to help  
> with the chosing and sorting of applications?
Definitely. There's no reason for us not to make this a team- 
transparent process.

> This really sucks :\
Don't worry about it too much.  Any way this turns out, it'll be a  
fun experience, it'll be good for Adium, and there will be positive  
cash flow for those involved on either side of the equation.  I'd  
prefer that we could all be students and mentors, and I really hope  
that happens -- but if it doesn't, it's not the end of the world.

-Evan

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