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Rémi Cardona wrote: |
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> joshua jackson a écrit : |
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>> 2) We need mentors, so far confirmed I have: Diego and Saleem |
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> What kind of work is involved there? I wouldn't mind being a mentor |
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> but I'd like to know a bit more about what's expected from a "good" |
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> mentor. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Rémi |
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There's a few requirements. Being decent in a language or multiple |
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languages would certainly be a plus, as the students are writing code. |
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having someone writing something in C or C++ when you've never touched |
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it wouldn't exactly work out that well obviously. |
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Having time to interact with the student as well. They are getting paid |
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as are we as an organization, so helping them and giving them idea's is |
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needed. Touching base and making sure they are still progressing on |
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their projects. Its summer...but they are being paid to work so it is a |
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job as I hope as a mentor you would take a similar approach as well. |
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Basically you act as a technical boss/mentor/leader to someone. |
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One area I'm working on for this year is goals within the overall goal |
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that can be implemented hopefully even if the project isn't fully |
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finished before the end of the project. |
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For the mentor it won't be a full time commitment but having time to |
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talk with/help someone with their project and explain how to implement |
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this feature or get this information from Gentoo's system would take |
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some time. |
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As a warning some people come on board with excellent programming |
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ability that you don't need to do much with/for. Some well its their |
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first real jump into programming and need more attention. I plan on |
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having a few additional questions for the Gentoo related applications to |
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help define that kind of thing and hope to get people together in such a |
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way. |
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As well a few of the people who are helping run it have agreed to help |
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poke/get updates from the mentors and step in and help in whatever way |
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possible to the students as well. Basically, we want as many projects to |
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succeed as possible and become a daily tool or vastly improved tools as |
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possible. Its certainly something that is possible. |
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