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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:04:48 +0100
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To: Elizabeth M Smith <auroraeosrose@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: GSoC 2009
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 00:03, Elizabeth M Smith
<auroraeosrose@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we really should encourage at least two active mentors for each
> project this year.  I think it helps both the students (always someone
> to annoy) and the mentors (less stress and time out of their lives) and
> provides a safety net if a mentor has real life issues come up.  But for
> that we need more people willing to mentor ;)

If we create a "php-gsoc@" mailinglist where all the students and
mentors, and everyone else who wants to follow the student work, and
require students to post weekly/by-weekly status updates then there is
no need. The community can then help the mentor out and we get more
information about the projects.

I still don't know what happened to many of the gsoc projects last
year, despite my multiple inquires to the mentors of the projects, and
haven't heard a beep from most of the students :(

Lets keep it in the OSS style. Communicate in the open.

-Hannes