Clojurians Log v2
gsoc
I’d like to have a better understanding of what it takes to be a mentor for a clojure Gsoc project...
I read this on the website
> Mentors are people from the community who volunteer to work with a student. Mentors provide guidance such as pointers to useful documentation, code reviews, etc. In addition to providing students with feedback and pointers, a mentor acts as an ambassador to help student contributors integrate into their project’s community.
Any experienced clojure dev could be a mentor or should it be backed by a company?
The idea is primarily to be someone who can monitor the student’s progress and help provide feedback on their project. With a great student, that might mean reviewing code and chatting with them about once a week or so.
Yes, any developer can be a mentor.
Oh Nice. So I’d me happy to be a mentor
Where should I apply?
The main tasks that you will absolutely need to do are grade the student at midterm and final, which is relatively short survey.
Well, you just did. 🙂
Oh cool!
Could I suggest project idea? Or the student will come up with his/her own ideas?
What would be really helpful is that if you have ideas on a project you might be interested in helping out on, to add them to our project ideas page.
It seems we both wrote the question and the answer at the same time 🙂
We certainly can use some project ideas, but ultimately it is up to a student to decide what to work on and start working with a mentor.
Would it be acceptable to ask for contribution to an open source project I maintain? e.g. klipse?
Absolutely. That’s exactly the sort of thing we are looking for.
Oh nice! Will do
Should I open a PR on https://github.com/clojars/clojure-gsoc-2017 ?
Yep.
Thx @sattvik
No problem, thank you very much for helpingout.