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Community volunteer for 2 years now, developed activities, led workshops. Confident in python and GNU. Worked professionally in programming for some years.
Community volunteer for 2 years now, developed activities, led workshops. Confident in python and GNU. Worked professionally in programming for some years.
=== [[User:Wade|Wade]] ===
*Name/contact
Wade Brainerd (wadetb at gmail dot com)
wadeb on IRC
*Timezone
Portland, Maine (UTC-5)
*What kind of projects could/would you mentor?
New activities, Games, Updates to/refreshes of existing activities, Frameworks for creating activities in new languages (Flash, Ajax, Mono)
*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 will be available for a single mentorship this year. I work full time as a programmer but have a flexible schedule.
*What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)?
Community volunteer for 2 years now, developed activities. Experienced in Python, C++, others. 11 years as a professional programmer, including 5 as a technical director and team lead.
*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
*What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have?
I assisted a GSoC 2007 student with a voting activity project back in Chile (STIRME Project). Learned from that experience the importance of constant contact with the Mentor.
I was closely involved in the 2007 OLPC GSoC project, reviewing applications and communicating with students. I mentored two students informally during 2007 after their GSoC projects were not funded. Both projects were completed with my help.
*Anything else you think is relevant.
*Anything else you think is relevant.
I informally went thru the student side of things with my good friend Ignacio in 2007. I consider that didn't do very well back then. So I have that precious learning experience, that I can commit to help the next student succeed.
As the Sugar Labs Activity Team coordinator, I have plenty of access to deployments. This gives me a good handle on what student projects will most effectively advance Sugar Labs' goals in the community.
As a volunteer activity developer, I have also developed many new activities myself, and overhauled existing ones.