[Adium-devl] SoC Mentor Summer

[David Smith]

I just noticed I somehow wrote "summer" instead of "summit". Oops.

On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

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

Google will reimburse $500/person for transportation.

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>> 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.

Possible Marfan's Syndrome here, so you'd best choose someone else.

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> -Evan
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