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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:
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+==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 (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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 Nah.
-=== 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/TurtleArt]]
-* 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.
 === [[User:Bobbyp|Bobby]] ===
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 *Name/contact
-Sebastian Silva (sebastian at fuentelibre.org)
+Sebastian Silva (sebastian at fuentelibre.org), (gmail alternative: sebatustra)
 icarito on IRC
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 Lecturer at University undergraduate and graduate level.
 GSoC 2007, 2008 and 2009 Mentor for OpenMoko
+GSoC 2008 for OLPC but my student was not funded
 *Anything else you think is relevant.
 Fellow of Lemelson Foundation RAMP-Peru, Social Entrepreneur, Free Culture activist, Appropriate Technology developer, Teaching Science, Math and Entrepeneurship in rural terciary schools.
+=== [[User:benlau|Ben Lau]] ===
+*Name/contact
+xbenlau at gmail.com
+*Timezone
+UTC+8
+*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
+Video , Computer Vision , Speech Processing , Python, Activities (Educational software , Chinese language learning)
+*How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor?
+I could commit up to 4-5 hours a week,  able to mentor 1 student.
+*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
+years Linux development experience , include kernel porting (ARM), Linux driver , GTK+ , opencv , GStreamer , C/C++ , python
+*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
+I have led two teams of university students to join an embedded system contest called Intel Cup (China) in 2006. The teams got a first prize and a second prize award finally.
+*Anything else you think is relevant.
+I am leading a team of volunteers on technical side for OLPC APAC division.
+=== [[User:SayaminduDasgupta|Sayamindu]] ===
+*Name/contact
+Sayamindu Dasgupta (sayamindu at gmail)
+unmadindu on IRC
+*Timezone
+Asia/Calcutta (UTC+0530) (I normally work on European timezones)
+*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
+Activities, l10n/i18n related projects.
+*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 am working a contractor for OLPC for the next few months. However, I think I can commit around 4-5 hours per week for the work.
+*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
+Wrote the Imageviewer activity, maintainer of Terminal, in the process of implementing largish features to Read. Familiar with GTK+, Python, Gstreamer, etc.
+*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
+I was a mentor during SoC 2008 for the Translate toolkit project (my student worked successfully on enhancing the Pootle featureset). I have also experience informally mentoring/guiding students and volunteers for a number of Free Software projects (mostly i18n/l10n related).
+*Anything else you think is relevant.
+I was a successful student participant in Summer of Code 2007 under Federico Mena-Quintero for the GNOME project. I also helped in the rating of applications for OLPC as a mentoring organisation during 2008's SoC.
+=== [[User:Assim|Assim Deodia]] ===
+*Name/contact
+Assim Deodia (assim.deodia at gmail dot com)
+assimd on IRC
+*Timezone
+Asia/Calcutta (UTC+0530)
+*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
+[[Activities/Listen Spell|Listen Spell]], Activities related to speech synthesis
+*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 can comfortably devote 4-5 hrs a week.
+*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
+I have developed speech server in SoCon for OLPC [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speech_Server| Speech Server], Deducto for OLPC and have also developed Listen Spell for OLPC in GSoC.
+*Anything else you think is relevant.
+I have successful completed Summer of Code 2008 under Dafydd Harries for the OLPC. I have also developed a low cost OMR processing application which is hosted on sourceforge [http://sourceforge.net/projects/omr-ai/| OMR AI]
+=== [[User:Aa|aa]] ===
+*Name/contact
+andresambrois at gmail
+*Timezone
+America/Montevideo (UTC-3)
+*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
+PyGTK-based activities and Sugar projects, especially in collaboration and networking.
+*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?
+-6 hours a week. Currently unemployed, but studying computer engineering. I devote most of my time to free software projects and Ceibal-related volunteering.
+*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
+I maintain the PlayGo activity, one of the developers of the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project| EduBlog project], written a couple of patches for sugar and currently working on some improvements. Familiar with Python, PHP, Tcl, Shell Scripting and (some) C.
+*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
+I've given technical talks and workshops, and was a math tutor years ago.
+*Anything else you think is relevant.
+I fear velociraptors.
+=== Alfonsodg ===
+*Name/contact
+[[User:Alfonsodg | Alfonso de la Guarda]]
+*Timezone
+GMT -5
+*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
+Sugar activities based on python, gtk, glade and some electronical enhancements
+*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 could commit up to 4 to 6 hours a week.
+*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
+Coded multiple python apps since 2001, including some XO activities
+*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
+Lead Technology Consultor for the Peruvian Army with 7 projects based all on FLOSS
+*Anything else you think is relevant.
+Love technology and wanna that some of my activities could be better with the help of many people
+=== Alex Levenson ===
+*Name/contact
+**Alex Levenson
+**alev742@gwu.edu
+*Timezone
+**Eastern Time during the school year, Pacific Time during the summer
+*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
+**Anything physics engine related
+**Anything related to games, pygame, olpcgames, graphics, etc
+*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.
+*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
+*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
+**I am a computer science tutor here at The George Washington University.
+*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.
+*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
+=== Guillaume Desmottes ===
+*Name/contact: [[User:Cassidy|Guillaume Desmottes]]
+*Timezone: GMT+1 (UK)
+*What kind of projects could/would you mentor? Telepathy related
+*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.
+*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.
+*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
+** Never mentored soc projects but regularly help people on #telepathy and #sugar.
+*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.
+===[[User:BryanWB|Bryan W Berry]]===
+*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]]
+*How much time could you devote to mentoring? Can you make the especially solid commitment of being a double-mentor?
+I can probably only mentor one person. I think I can contribute 10 hours per week for 3 months.
+*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
+For the past two years I have led a team of 10 full-time software developers creating open-source educational learning activities.
+*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
+I have mentored 12 Nepali interns at OLE Nepal over the last 12 months.
+What do you think your role as a mentor would involve? How would you fill it, and why? (3-5 sentences is plenty)
+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.
+[[Category:GSoC]]

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