From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NozYw-0004YG-VC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:33:31 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59867 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NozYv-0004Xz-3W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:33:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NozYt-0001ge-Vh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:33:28 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:3169) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NozYt-0001ga-Kj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:33:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:33:16 -0300 From: Luiz Capitulino Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Summer of Code 2010 Message-ID: <20100309103316.7411655f@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20100308172047.6a0371b6@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Johannes Schindelin Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, avi@redhat.com On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:31:23 +0100 (CET) Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > > > Google has this wonderful program called Summer of Code, in which open > > source projects like ours, suggest possible projects and provide mentors > > to help selected students to do them. > > > > It's a great opportunity for students to get in touch with open source > > development, also good for us to get some projects done and more people > > involved (students are paid too, btw). > > Note that some students do not finish up their work, do not get properly > involved with the project, get the pay check, and then go somewhere else. > The time of the mentor is quite possibly just wasted in such a case. Quite > frustrating experience, believe me. I think that the role of the mentor is close to that of a teacher, from this pov, it's not just wasted time at all (even if the project 'fails'). Now, I understand what you mean and I fell sorry (and slightly bad) about it, as my project didn't take the right direction. That said, I think that _part_ of the problem is about having the right expectations and realistic goals.