[SoC] Squeak Mentor Summit?

[Ken Causey]

Correction: Toon's last name is Verwaest.

My mistake,

Ken

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 19:12 -0500, Ken Causey wrote:
> And a summary of our final pre-application deadline meeting:
> 
> Attendance was pretty good with two new attendees: Aik-Siong Koh and
> Toon Verwaes.  Also in attendance were Giovanni Corriga, Janko Mivsek,
> Adrian Kuhn, Esteban Lorenzano, Klaus Witzel, and Mathieu Suen.
> 
> There was a little discussion of how co-mentoring would work.  Google
> only allows us to specify a primary mentor, beyond that it is up to each
> project to manage backup mentors to it's own satisfaction.
> 
> We then went through a handful of applications received in the last
> 24-48 hours.
> 
> Mathieu asked about students updating applications and Giovanni pointed
> out that after the application deadline only comments can be added.
> 
> There was then considerable discussion about whether PhD students should
> be given the same support as undergraduate (and perhaps Master)
> students.  Some were of the opinion that PhD students tended to have
> other funding sources and so were less in need of this source of
> funding.  For now it was decided that each mentor is free to vote with
> this in mind and make their own decision.  Further discussion on this
> topic is possible, even likely.
> 
> At the moment there are no other meetings scheduled.  I suspect it would
> be a good idea to have at least one meeting prior to the end of the
> first round of voting on the 15th and another during the second round of
> voting.  If anyone has any preferences on the scheduling of these
> meetings please voice them.
> 
> I have text logs of all three meetings so far, if anyone would like a
> copy, please let me know.
> 
> Ken
> 
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