From kde-kimageshop Thu Mar 15 11:14:15 2007 From: Cyrille Berger Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:14:15 +0000 To: kde-kimageshop Subject: GSoc 2007 : become a mentor ! Message-Id: <200703151214.16062.cberger () cberger ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-kimageshop&m=117395724817895 Hello, Google has release the list of projects, and KDE has been selected :/ It would be a really good idea if more KOffice developers could register as mentor for this year edition (see http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Participation#Subscribing_as_mentor for instructions). There are quiet a few reasons why mentoring is a good idea: - it's fun :) - having a lot of mentors show to google (and kde) that koffice developers care - it's not that time consuming, it's not the mentor who writes the code, the job of the mentor is to help the student to integrate in the project (community and API wise), the mentor shouldn't be the only one to answer the student questions - having someone external to the project diving into the code helps us to improve the API - it's mentors who selected projects (well google gives his opinion too, but most of the time they follow what the opinion of mentors), and who is better suited to have an opinion on KOffice related projects than KOffice developers ? But don't subscribe as a mentor if you really think you will have absolutely neither the time or the patience to deal with a student. -- Cyrille Berger _______________________________________________ kimageshop mailing list kimageshop@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kimageshop