Dear list,<br><br>We have 75 people subscribed to the gsoc list so far; thanks to all those who have introduced themselves. Don't be shy about using this list for anything related to gsoc, including asking questions that you are sure are answered /somewhere/ but that you couldn't find. [I've had troule finding things on the main gsoc site today myself.]<br>
<br>We have eight confirmed mentors and a similar number pending confirmation. Scorche and others recommend having more than 1 mentor available per student; we could still use another dozen or so mentors. And 60% of our mentors are currently from the US; we could use more Spanish speakers.<br>
<br>It is ok to offer to mentor students only within a specific interest;
please mention this on <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code</a> when
you apply to mentor. <br>
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We could use more mentors specifically for projects integrating with sugar, networking and other core services -- many students have been applying to create their own standalone code or activities from scratch, but that does not give them much of a chance to learn about collaborating on a larger project.<br>
<br>Mentor application : <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_step1.html">http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_step1.html</a><br>Student application : <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/student.html">http://code.google.com/soc/2008/student.html</a><br>
<br>SJ<br><br>