Are you available as Google Summer of Code mentor?

[Manfred Usselmann]

Hey Christian,

yes, I've read your mail about GSoC 2011 and I like the idea. 

So far I have never participated in the GSoC program, but I can imagine
to participate as a mentor for GnuCash and to have fun mentoring a
student. Even better if our project may benefit from it.   

Regarding ideas for suitable tasks I have no good suggestions off the
top of my head, but I will give it some thought.

Kind regards, 
Manfred


On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 13:07:39 +0100
Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:

> Dear Manfred,
> 
> I guess  you've read my explanation of the Google Summer of Code
> plans
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-March/031268.html
> 
> I'd like to ask you to consider acting as a mentor in that program. I
> think you will be in a good position to guide a newly entering
> student into a useful way of collaborating with the project, and I
> think you will have enough ideas on how to guide the student so that
> he/she has a lot of fun while doing these 12 weeks assignment.
> 
> If you need more information about what the mentor role is all about,
> I suggest reading through this: 
> http://www.booki.cc/gsoc-mentoring/_v/1.0/what-makes-a-good-mentor/
> I was such a mentor in our 2007 GSoC participation. It's not so
> important to know the deep details about the gnucash codebase. It is
> much more important to establish and emphasize a good and regular
> communication from the student to you and to the gnucash community.
> The technical task itself may or may not turn out successful; I
> wouldn't expect too much on average from those students. But some of
> them will be really bright and bring a lot of innovation to the
> project, and simply because of them the whole effort will be worth it.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Christian