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-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:
 *Name/contact
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-=== Walter ===
-* Name/contact
-[[User:Walter|Walter Bender]]
-EST (UTC-5)
-* What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
-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.
-* How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor?
-As much as necessary to make sure we have a successful, useful outcome.
-* What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
-maintainer of [[Activities/Turtle Art]]
-* What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
-years mentoring student projects at MIT
-* Anything else you think is relevant.
-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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 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.
+===[[User:Walter|Walter]]===
+*Name/contact
+Walter Bender / (walter AT sl.o)
+*Timezone
+EST (UTC+4)
+*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
+Activities, and some Sugar UI-related projects (anything relevant to daily life in the classroom.)
+*How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor?
+Not sure what a "double mentor" is, but I could put in 10 hours/week...
+*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
+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.
+*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
+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.
+*Anything else you think is relevant.
+You learn through doing, so I will roll up my sleeves along side whomever I mentor, because I want to keep learning.
+===[[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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