[SoC] Squeak Mentor Summit?

[Esteban Lorenzano]

Hey, Ken... is "Esteban Lorenzano", not "Lorenzo", besides, just  
Esteban is ok too :)

Cheers,
Esteban

El 02/04/2008, a las 2:20PM, Ken Causey escribió:

> A quick report on today's meeting:
>
> I think it went quite well, there was better attendance than I  
> expected.
> Attendees included: Ken Causey, Matthew Fulmer, Klaus Witzel, Stephane
> Ducasse, Matthieu Suen, Esteban Lorenzo, Janko Mivsek, Brian Rice, and
> Lukas Renggli.
>
> If anyone wants I can provide a log of the entire discussion but to
> quickly summarize:
>
> We started out with open questions:
>
> Klaus asked about students applying multiple times and about mentors
> mentoring multiple projects.  We said that applying multiple times is
> fine but in the end a student can only receive one slot.  We were  
> unsure
> about mentoring but assumed at the very least a mentor can be the
> primary mentor on one project and a secondary mentor on another  
> project.
> If anyone can clarify this I would appreciate it.
>
> Klaus also asked about policy regarding students who don't reply to
> queries.  We decided that we would be as lenient as possible but
> obviously once it came time to vote that this would be a significant
> issue in voting.
>
> Stephane pointed out that it's not unusual for a student to apply to
> more than one project and that ideally we should find out where  
> that is
> the case as soon as possible and be prepared to deal with it.
>
> Stephane also pointed out that ESUG will be sponsoring at least 4
> students in its SummerTalk project and suggested that students who are
> rejected should also apply there.
>
> At that point we decided to go through the applications one-by-one and
> open up discussion.  I won't go over the details but I think a lot was
> accomplished with that and to my surprise we got through all of the
> applications with time to spare.
>
> I asked about the application entitled 'Coding' by Suprita Kocchar and
> whether that one should be marked ineligible since there is no project
> specified and it is a purely generic application.  Matthew checked and
> this does not appear to be one of the application spammers.  We left
> this issue open and any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Klaus asked Brian Rice if he would consider co-mentoring a new  
> compiler
> project and Brian said he would be willing to consider it.
>
> Two students came by: Cedrick Beler and Francois Stephany.  Cedrick
> asked about scheduling issues and was a little concerned about whether
> he would have the time to do his project.  I believe he is  
> intending to
> contact Giovanni for clarification.
>
> Thanks everyone and remember that there is another meeting on  
> Saturday,
> April 5th from 15:00UTC to 17:00UTC.
>
> Ken
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