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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 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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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?

~~30 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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*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?

[[Listen Spell]], Activities related to speech synthesis

[[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?

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*Name/contact

Alex Levenson

**Alex Levenson

alev742@gwu.edu

**alev742@gwu.edu

*Timezone

Eastern Time during the school year, Pacific Time during the summer

**Eastern Time during the school year, Pacific Time during the summer

*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?

Anything physics engine related

**Anything physics engine related

Anything related to games, pygame, olpcgames, graphics, etc

**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.

**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

**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.

**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.

**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

**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

**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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 ==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:
 *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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 *What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
-[[Listen Spell]], Activities related to speech synthesis
+[[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?
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 *Name/contact
-Alex Levenson
+**Alex Levenson
-alev742@gwu.edu
+**alev742@gwu.edu
 *Timezone
-Eastern Time during the school year, Pacific Time during the summer
+**Eastern Time during the school year, Pacific Time during the summer
 *What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
-Anything physics engine related
+**Anything physics engine related
-Anything related to games, pygame, olpcgames, graphics, etc
+**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.
+**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
+**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.
+**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.
+**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
+**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
+**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]]