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...commitment that warrants being a mentor. Of course, the mentor does not necessarily have to have the deepest understanding of the subject matter. *At the end of the GSOC* a good student should be trusted with having more knowledge on the specific topic than the mentor. That being said, DVFS is fidgetty and the outcome is binary (it either works or crashes your machine spectacularly), so it's difficult to get someone started and keep 'em motivated if as a mentor you don't have experience on the topic. As such, I'd consider it a high risk topic to promote unless one of the relat...

...warrants being a mentor. > Of course, the mentor does not necessarily have to have the deepest > understanding of the subject matter. *At the end of the GSOC* a good > student should be trusted with having more knowledge on the specific > topic than the mentor. That being said, DVFS is fidgetty and the outcome > is binary (it either works or crashes your machine spectacularly), so > it's difficult to get someone started and keep 'em motivated if as a > mentor you don't have experience on the topic. As such, I'd consider it > a high risk topic to promote unless...

On Tue 2019-03-26 @ 10:40:49 AM, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > Just looked over the projects... they all seem valid Thank you for taking the time to have a look and provide feedback! > but are there > people who could realistically mentor a GSoC student for these? IMHO > unless mentors can be identified, these should all be archived. Attracting mentors is probably the hardest part of running