[OLPC-GSoC] GSoC Mentoring

[Wade Brainerd]

Nirav,

If I write a proposal on the Ideas page for 'sugargame' (a fork of
PyGame with Sugar specific features such as the ability to mix GTK and
PyGame in a single activity), would you feel up to mentoring that?

Cheers,
Wade

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Nirav Patel <olpc at spongezone.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think you'd make a great backup mentor, easily. We'll see, when the
>> projects come out, if there's a project that it would be OK for you to
>> mentor. I suspect that in order for you to be a full mentor, you'd need two
>> things. First, you'd need a good Socratic attitude; to be good at asking the
>> right questions to get people to solve their own problems. And second, a bit
>> of extra time to devote, as you play catch-up yourself on some issues. One
>> important part of a mentor's job is to help make visible progress on silly
>> frustrating issues - "my jhbuild is broken and I don't know why" - and
>> socratic questions only go so far in that direction. The right questions can
>> be "visible progress" for a day or two, but if you can't even code because
>> nothing works, you need real help.
>>
>> I'm including the gsoc list on this message, I hope you don't mind.
>>
>> Let me (us) know what you think.
>>
>> Jameson
>
> This is an accurate assessment of my status and what being a mentor
> requires.  Between "process consulting" with various non-profits and
> some tutoring/TAing during school, I believe I am capable of the first
> half.  For the second, it depends largely on the specific project, but
> it is certainly best that I not primary mentor any projects I couldn't
> provide useful guidance on.  At the current time, that would include
> most of the projects on the ideas page.
>
> Nirav
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