[SoC] Squeak Mentor Summit?

[stephane ducasse]

Hi ken

could you send an email when we will have to vote and when the vote  
will end.
Because I have rather limited internet access for two weeks.

stef

On Apr 8, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Ken Causey wrote:

> 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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