Re: GSoC project mentors

["Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

On 3/9/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/8/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >Being a GSoC mentor does have a time commitment.  You will need to
> >
> > This is a problem. How about IRC schedules? Say, if some idea
> > has not enough mentorship, it may have at least supporters on
> > IRC who _commit_ themselves to that schedule. In this case
> > the students can at least know when they are likely to get help.
>
> Committing oneself to being on IRC is a time commitment, isn't it?
> :-)

yes, but it is a smaller one. And the suggestion was to commit to specific
date and time.

> IRC time is difficult for me; I do hang out there more often than
> I used to now that the community is doing the same, but I spend
> a good part of my week working from a network where IRC access
> isn't allowed.

Me too. But I would gladly spent some time on IRC when I'm home,
which usually is after 20:00 CET. Especially if I promised to.