Mentor Meeting Tomorrow (was Re: [SoC] Squeak Mentor Summit?)

[Ken Causey]

Don't forget there is a mentor meeting scheduled for Saturday April 5th
from 15:00UTC to 17:00UTC.  If you can make it, please do.  Details
below.

Ken

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:54 -0500, Ken Causey wrote:
> Thanks Klaus,
> 
> In the interest of expediency I believe I'll just go ahead and announce
> 3 times slots for this week and depending on how it goes we can talk
> about what to do in the future.
> 
> The interest in these particular meetings of course is to discuss and
> support student applications prior to the deadline so the students have
> some opportunity to adjust their application if and as needed.
> 
> I'm going to make these two hour meetings but that does not mean you
> shouldn't come if you can't be there for the entire 2 hours, the point
> of what I'm doing is to be as accomodating as reasonably possible.
> 
> Matthew Fulmer and I are both on #squeak fairly regularly and are fairly
> active in supporting students there.  So one of my intentions is to
> schedule these so that one if not both of us can attend each meeting in
> its entirety.
> 
> Again, to be accomodating I and Matthew will be on both IRC (#squeak on
> irc.freenode.net, my nickname is kencausey and Matthew's is matthewf)
> and Skype (my Skype username is kencausey and Matthew's is
> matthew.fulmer).  That's not because I want to have two seperate streams
> of conversation, but I want to avoid excluding anyone.  Please use the
> IRC channel if at all possible and only use Skype if you can't access
> IRC.  If you have to use Skype just text me, don't try to actually
> initiate a voice call.  Then I can invite you to a group chat or
> whatever.  Of course if I don't respond, be sure to try Matthew.
> 
> So here is the schedule for this week (all times in UTC):
> 
> Wednesday April 2nd, 15:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC
> 
> Saturday April 5th, 15:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC
> 
> Monday April 7th, 22:00 UTC to 0:00 UTC - This is the last two hours of
> the application acceptance period, so this is an opportunity to maybe
> respond to last minute student jitters.
> 
> Please try to attend as many of these as you can.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ken
> 
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 00:14 +0200, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:57:49 +0200, Ken Causey wrote:
> > 
> > > It seems to me that we really need to get communication between mentors
> > > bootstarted.  Can we start meeting virtually?
> > 
> > Yes, I was about to ask something similiar :)
> > 
> > > A handful of us already
> > > hang out fairly regularly on #squeak (and some other channels) on
> > > irc.freenode.net.  If some people can't use IRC perhaps we can use Skype
> > > or some other technology.
> > 
> > #squeak is just fine.
> > 
> > > Due to timezone issues I suspect just one
> > > meeting time won't cut it, so perhaps we should have several at
> > > different times of the day.  Is anyone else interested?  Should I just
> > > pick out some times and dates and announce it?
> > 
> > Please.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Klaus
> > 
> > > I really think having at
> > > least a meeting or two before the student application deadline would be
> > > a good idea as there are some issues with at least a couple of the
> > > applications.
> > >
> > > Ken
> > 
> > 
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