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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:38:30 +0100
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To: Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: GSoC 2009
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Hannes Magnusson
<hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.

As a sidenote, the wiki has an account request system, simply request
an account if you do not have yet one and likes to propose ideas.


Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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