Rails - Jun 2005 - Looking for a Ruby on Rails mentor for Google Summer of Code

Hello Railers,

I''m curious to know if someone from Ruby on Rails would like to become 
one of Google''s Mentoring Organizations.

Google would like the mentoring org to:

Create a pool of ideas for students to choose from.
Have a person available to take in student ideas should they not find 
something that appeals to them.
Have a person available to review the incoming applications marked for 
that organization and decide who should go forward with the effort.
Have a person to monitor the progress of the students and mentor them as 
the project goes forward.
Have a person ready to take over for that person in the event they go on 
vacation, are hit by a bus, etc...
Be able to tell us about the developer, how they worked with the group, 
if they should be invited back should we do another summer of code, etc..

I''ve got the idea part down, developing a learning management system. 
I''ve worked with a bunch written in PHP and Flash-- there''s
plenty of
room for Rails to shine in elearning. I''m writing up the project plan 
today and can forward it on to whoever would like to get involved in the 
mentoring process. The Google Summer of Code time frame is 3 months for 
completion.

The mentoring org also receives a $500 donation. A nice bonus for 
guiding the eager and willing students.

Please email me if there''s anyone who''d like to join on as a
mentor.

Thanks a bunch,
 
Vanessa Pagan

While not personally wishing to join as a mentor myself, I know there
are others in the ruby community who would like to take something like
this on. There appears to be some confusion over admitting new
mentoring origanizations to the Summer of Code though. See  [1] for
details.

Do you know if Ruby Central can still be added as a mentoring organization?

Thanks,

Chris

[1] http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/144362

On 6/2/05, Vanessa Pagan <vpagan-hnhdhkBXzx8@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hello Railers,
> 
> I''m curious to know if someone from Ruby on Rails would like to
become
> one of Google''s Mentoring Organizations.
> 
> Google would like the mentoring org to:
> 
> Create a pool of ideas for students to choose from.
> Have a person available to take in student ideas should they not find
> something that appeals to them.
> Have a person available to review the incoming applications marked for
> that organization and decide who should go forward with the effort.
> Have a person to monitor the progress of the students and mentor them as
> the project goes forward.
> Have a person ready to take over for that person in the event they go on
> vacation, are hit by a bus, etc...
> Be able to tell us about the developer, how they worked with the group,
> if they should be invited back should we do another summer of code, etc..
> 
> I''ve got the idea part down, developing a learning management
system.
> I''ve worked with a bunch written in PHP and Flash--
there''s plenty of
> room for Rails to shine in elearning. I''m writing up the project
plan
> today and can forward it on to whoever would like to get involved in the
> mentoring process. The Google Summer of Code time frame is 3 months for
> completion.
> 
> The mentoring org also receives a $500 donation. A nice bonus for
> guiding the eager and willing students.
> 
> Please email me if there''s anyone who''d like to join on
as a mentor.
> 
> Thanks a bunch,
> 
> Vanessa Pagan
> 
> 
> 
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On Thursday 02 June 2005 16:30, Chris McGrath wrote:
> Do you know if Ruby Central can still be added as a mentoring organization?
Iiuc, it can until June 14th.

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I have forwarded this message on to Greg Stein at Google who is  
working on the SoC project.  I don''t know if it''ll help, and I
have
heard that they''ve received numerous project proposals already.  My  
hunch would be that they have plenty to keep them busy for this first  
go-round.

     Erik

On Jun 2, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Chris McGrath wrote:
> While not personally wishing to join as a mentor myself, I know there
> are others in the ruby community who would like to take something like
> this on. There appears to be some confusion over admitting new
> mentoring origanizations to the Summer of Code though. See  [1] for
> details.
>
> Do you know if Ruby Central can still be added as a mentoring  
> organization?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> [1] http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/144362
>
> On 6/2/05, Vanessa Pagan <vpagan-hnhdhkBXzx8@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Railers,
>>
>> I''m curious to know if someone from Ruby on Rails would like
to
>> become
>> one of Google''s Mentoring Organizations.
>>
>> Google would like the mentoring org to:
>>
>> Create a pool of ideas for students to choose from.
>> Have a person available to take in student ideas should they not find
>> something that appeals to them.
>> Have a person available to review the incoming applications marked  
>> for
>> that organization and decide who should go forward with the effort.
>> Have a person to monitor the progress of the students and mentor  
>> them as
>> the project goes forward.
>> Have a person ready to take over for that person in the event they  
>> go on
>> vacation, are hit by a bus, etc...
>> Be able to tell us about the developer, how they worked with the  
>> group,
>> if they should be invited back should we do another summer of  
>> code, etc..
>>
>> I''ve got the idea part down, developing a learning management
system.
>> I''ve worked with a bunch written in PHP and Flash--
there''s plenty of
>> room for Rails to shine in elearning. I''m writing up the
project plan
>> today and can forward it on to whoever would like to get involved  
>> in the
>> mentoring process. The Google Summer of Code time frame is 3  
>> months for
>> completion.
>>
>> The mentoring org also receives a $500 donation. A nice bonus for
>> guiding the eager and willing students.
>>
>> Please email me if there''s anyone who''d like to join
on as a mentor.
>>
>> Thanks a bunch,
>>
>> Vanessa Pagan
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>>
>>
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>Do you know if Ruby Central can still be added as a mentoring organization?
>  
>
I see the conflict on the Google page.  The first page says you can join 
as a mentoring organization, the mentoring FAQ page saying that they 
will not list anymore new organizations and the application page still 
has the option for Other Organization open.

If the organization can meet the listed requirements of being a mentor, 
the student still has the ability to add the org. This may change as the 
day progresses but I''m going to do my best to apply as soon as possible
before any more changes arise.

--Vanessa