[Adium-devl] SoC Mentor Summer

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Sep 22, 2007, at 6:56 PM, David Smith wrote:

> 	We'll need to pick some representatives for Adium. Anyone have
> opinions on how we should go about doing this? Should people who went
> last year be allowed to go (I'd tend to say no, for diversity)?
> Should people who gave up mentor slots (Colin, for example) be
> allowed to go (I'd tend to say yes)?

I think anyone who has been a mentor or administrator for Adium should  
be eligible, with the following preferences all else being equal:
  1) Mentors from this year get higher priority than mentors from last  
year who did not mentor this year, on the basis that this-year mentors  
are closer to having been intimately involved with the program
  2) Folks who did not attend last year (that is, not Brian and Peter)  
get higher priority, on the basis that it is a fun experience which  
should be shared as much as possible.

"Lower priority" doesn't mean that we don't want someone to go;  
priority should serve a tie-breaker if there are more people able to  
go and interested in doing so than slots we have available.

David, what does a "slot" mean?  Will, as they did last year, Google  
be paying air fare (and air fare alone) for attendees? Or is the  
arrangement different in some way?

> It's on Oct 6th, in MV, so if  anyone who can't make it would say so  
> in the reply, that would help as well.

(Thanks, Chris, for speaking up for me earlier in the thread.)  I  
won't be available to go then, but I will send an invisible spirit  
presence along with one randomly chosen Adium representative.  The  
spirit presence will cling to your mitral valve for the duration of  
the trip, so please let me know if you have a history of valvular  
disease before I make my selection.

-Evan