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| ==Mentors== | | ==Mentors== |
− | Our most important need right now is for quality mentors. If you (or someone you know) would make a good mentor, please nominate yourself (or them), both here on the ML and on the wiki (if you can't handle a little redundant paperwork, you're probably not a good candidate :). Include relevant information such as: | + | Our most important need right now is for quality mentors. If you (or someone you know) would make a good mentor, please nominate yourself (or them), both here on the ML (iaep AT sl.o) and on the wiki (if you can't handle a little redundant paperwork, you're probably not a good candidate :). Include relevant information such as: |
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− | === Walter ===
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− | [[User:Walter|Walter Bender]]
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− | * What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
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− | I am interested in Sugar activities that are relevant to daily life in the classroom. Things that help the teacher and learner enhance their approaches to problem-solving.
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− | * How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor?
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− | As much as necessary to make sure we have a successful, useful outcome.
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− | * What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
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− | maintainer of [[Activities/TurtleArt]]
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− | * What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
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− | 30 years mentoring student projects at MIT
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− | * Anything else you think is relevant.
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− | You learn through doing, so I will roll up my sleeves along side whomever I mentor, because I want to keep learning.
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| === [[User:Bobbyp|Bobby]] === | | === [[User:Bobbyp|Bobby]] === |
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− | [[Listen Spell]], Activities related to speech synthesis | + | [[Activities/Listen Spell|Listen Spell]], Activities related to speech synthesis |
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| *How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor? What are your other commitments over the summer? | | *How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor? What are your other commitments over the summer? |
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| + | **Alex Levenson |
| + | **alev742@gwu.edu |
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| *Timezone | | *Timezone |
| + | **Eastern Time during the school year, Pacific Time during the summer |
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| *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? | | *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? |
| + | **Anything physics engine related |
| + | **Anything related to games, pygame, olpcgames, graphics, etc |
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| *How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor? What are your other commitments over the summer? | | *How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor? What are your other commitments over the summer? |
| + | **I'll be working for Google in San Francisco this summer. |
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| *What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)? | | *What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)? |
| + | **I wrote a couple of physics simulation activities for OLPC last summer. I am a computer science major and have experience as a software developer. Resume: http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~alev742/resume.php |
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| *What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have? | | *What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have? |
| + | **I am a computer science tutor here at The George Washington University. |
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| *What do you think your role as a mentor would involve? How would you fill it, and why? (3-5 sentences is plenty) | | *What do you think your role as a mentor would involve? How would you fill it, and why? (3-5 sentences is plenty) |
| + | **I would be glad to provide any kind of support I can, from high level software design strategy to code reviews. I would like to focus on keeping the code not only functional but elegant, readable, and scalable - something that's very important as this platform moves forward. |
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| *Anything else you think is relevant. | | *Anything else you think is relevant. |
| + | **Please check out my resume: http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~alev742/resume.php |
| + | **And also my olpc userpage: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Alexlevenson |
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| + | === Guillaume Desmottes === |
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| + | *Name/contact: [[User:Cassidy|Guillaume Desmottes]] |
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| + | *Timezone: GMT+1 (UK) |
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| + | *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? Telepathy related |
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| + | *How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor? What are your other commitments over the summer? |
| + | ** If possible I'd prefer co-mentoring so I would focus on the Telepathy part and a Sugar guy on the UI/integration one. I'll work this summer but my [http://www.collabora.co.uk/ employer] would probably let me allocate some time on mentoring if needed. I could maybe have another soc student on the GNOME front too. |
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| + | *What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)? |
| + | ** I hack on Telepathy as my job. Did lot of the Telepathy integration in Sugar. |
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| + | *What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have? |
| + | ** Never mentored soc projects but regularly help people on #telepathy and #sugar. |
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| + | *What do you think your role as a mentor would involve? How would you fill it, and why? (3-5 sentences is plenty) |
| + | ** My main goal is to ensure than proposed projects are did the right way. I want to avoid that student did the code on his own without any input from relevant person and so is finally never merged because it was just the wrong approach. |
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| + | ===[[User:BryanWB|Bryan W Berry]]=== |
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| + | *Name: [[User:BryanWB|Bryan W Berry]] |
| + | *Timezone : GMT+5:45 (Nepal) |
| + | *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? |
| + | Using Web technologies to create Sugar activities, like [[Karma]] |
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| + | *How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor? |
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| + | I can probably only mentor one person. I think I can contribute 10 hours per week for 3 months. |
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| + | *What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)? |
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| + | For the past two years I have led a team of 10 full-time software developers creating open-source educational learning activities. |
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| + | *What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have? |
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| + | I have mentored 12 Nepali interns at OLE Nepal over the last 12 months. |
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| + | What do you think your role as a mentor would involve? How would you fill it, and why? (3-5 sentences is plenty) |
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| + | There is a lot to creating learning activities that is not technical but procedure. I am particularly interested in making it easier for programmers to create learning activities. |
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| + | ===[[User:Walter|Walter]]=== |
| + | *Name/contact |
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| + | Walter Bender / (walter AT sl.o) |
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| + | *Timezone |
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| + | EST (UTC+4) |
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| + | *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? |
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| + | Activities, and some Sugar UI-related projects (anything relevant to daily life in the classroom.) |
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| + | *How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor? |
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| + | Not sure what a "double mentor" is, but I could put in 10 hours/week... |
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| + | *What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)? |
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| + | I have been with the Sugar project since the beginning and have been making the occasional Sugar patch; I have written and maintain a half-dozen activities. |
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| + | *What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have? |
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| + | I was a GSoC coordinator and mentor in 2009. I have supervised hundreds of MIT undergraduate research projects and 50+ graduate-level (MS&PhD) thesis projects. |
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| + | *Anything else you think is relevant. |
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| + | You learn through doing, so I will roll up my sleeves along side whomever I mentor, because I want to keep learning. |
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| + | ===[[User:Mstone|Michael]]=== |
| + | *Name/contact |
| + | :: Michael Stone / michael@laptop.org |
| + | *Timezone |
| + | :: EDT (UTC-4) |
| + | *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? |
| + | :: One project |
| + | *How much time could you devote to mentoring? |
| + | :: 5-10 hr/week |
| + | *What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)? |
| + | :: I am the author of [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow rainbow]. I also am intimately familiar with Sugar's architecture, design, and code base. |
| + | *What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have? |
| + | :: I analyze, critique, and improve software professionally, often working with less experienced coders. I also managed the release of a small operating system ([http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0 OLPC's 8.2.0 OS release]) in which I helped to fold the work of many contributors, both new and old, into a successful and coherent software development experience. |
| + | *Anything else you think is relevant. |
| + | :: My entrée into professional software development, which I love, was an internship not unlike the ones you're applying for here. |
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| [[Category:GSoC]] | | [[Category:GSoC]] |