You learn through doing, so I will roll up my sleeves along side whomever I mentor, because I want to keep learning.
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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=== Bobby ===
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*Name/contact
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firstnamelastname at gmail, nteon on IRC
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*Timezone
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US Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5)
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*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
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PyGTK-based activities, lower level stuff.
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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?
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Probably 4-6 hours a week.
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*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
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Maintainer of Model activity, have done some tinkering with Sugar/Rainbow, rewrote boot-animation. Fairly confident with C/Python/Linux, have been involved with OLPC for about a year (although have been mostly lurking on the sugar side of things for a few months).
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*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
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Summer camp counselor for a number of years, OLPC intern summer '08.
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*Anything else you think is relevant.
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I'm a few months behind on Sugar development, but think its a fabulous project. Let me know what you need of me.