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