On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > +1 for making a status report every 20 days or so a requirements. Oh, WAY more often than that. I say every week at least. I have been a mentor for GSoC for 3 years, and while I still feel I have stuff to learn, one thing I have learned is that GSoC needs to be treated like a job, not just a fun summer project. While I hope there would be some fun in it, the student needs to treat it very seriously. I have personally had enough of students taking the Google money and just putting in a few hours here and there and producing something that barely fulfills the goals of their project. I am not saying every previous GSoC student was like that, but a lot were. In addition being a mentor should also be taken pretty seriously. I have not done a very good job in the past in my opinion. I was not proactive enough, did not push the students enough, and was overly nice in some cases. While I am not advocating being military strict or making your student hate you and his project, I do think you need to be more than just a buddy the student occasionally talks to. You need to push them, make sure they put good work in EVERY WEEK, and that they don't slack off too much. I should know because I myself can be a slacker at times and I respond when people ask more of me (like asking where that WebKit stuff is ;) Anyhow, back to the topic of this thread: I will put myself more in the willing to mentor category, especially for the WebKit project. I am also still interested in Zeroconf, and have even had ideas for uses of that technology lately (though I didn't see it on the Wiki page of ideas.) I could probably also mentor other porting efforts. Regards, Ryan