[SoC] Squeak Mentor Summit?

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Sat Apr 5 22:48:57 UTC 2008


As it says at the end of the message the next meeting is scheduled for
Monday April 7th at 22:00 UTC, this is  the same as I originally stated.
 Beyond that I'm open to suggestions for the scheduling of future
meetings.

Ken

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [SoC] Squeak Mentor Summit?
> From: Mathieu Suen <mathieusuen at yahoo.fr>
> Date: Sat, April 05, 2008 5:37 pm
> To: Squeak Summer of Code mailing list <soc at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
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> Soory but, were can I fine the schedule of the meeting?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Apr 5, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Ken Causey wrote:
> > A report on today (Saturday's) mentor meeting:
> >
> > Attendance was a little low but we did have two new participants:  
> > Adrian
> > Kuhn and Giovanni Corriga.  Thanks Adrian and Giovanni!  Also in
> > attendance were Klaus Witzel, Matthew Fulmer, Janko Mivsek, and Ken
> > Causey.
> >
> > Giovanni explained the voting procedure, to summarize:
> >
> > Once the student application deadline ends a drop-down should appear  
> > on
> > the application with -4, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +4 choices.  The specific
> > votes should not be visible to students.  Voting is split up into two
> > periods, the first will be from April 7th (8th maybe) until the 15th.
> > The second will start on the 15th and end on the 17th or 18th and is
> > meant to take into consideration students who have been accepted into
> > other projects, the number of slots Google has assigned us, etc.
> >
> > Giovanni pointed out that any mentors interested in attend the Mentors
> > Summit hosted by Google in the fall should start saving for expenses.
> > Google will pay for a small number of mentors but not for all, and we
> > have to pay initially to be reimbursed by Google later.
> >
> > Adrian Kuhn said he would be meeting with his student on Monday to
> > improve the SpyVM application.
> >
> > Matthew Fulmer provided a link to his application from last year's  
> > GSOC
> > which was accepted but which he was ultimately forced to cancel.
> >
> > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5759
> >
> > Giovanni pointed out that we should include at least one student who  
> > is
> > a newcomer to Squeak, of course only if the application is also good.
> >
> > We didn't bother to go over all of the applications again.
> >
> > The next meeting is on Monday during the last two hours of the
> > application period 22:00 to 0:00 on Monday April 7th.  If you haven't
> > made it to either of the other meetings this is the last chance before
> > student applications have to be finished and voting starts.
> >
> > I would appreciate any comments on scheduling future meetings.  I
> > scheduled 3 of them rather close together right now to try to  
> > accomodate
> > everyone before the deadline.  I suspect we should have at least a
> > meeting during the first voting period and almost certainly one during
> > the second.  Any thoughts you have on that would be appreciated.
> >
> > Ken
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> 	Mth
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