Line 1: |
Line 1: |
− | 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: | + | {{TOCright}} |
| + | ==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 | | *Name/contact |
Line 19: |
Line 21: |
| *Timezone | | *Timezone |
| | | |
− | US Central / Central America | + | US Central / Central America (UTC-6) |
| | | |
| *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? | | *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? |
Line 71: |
Line 73: |
| | | |
| I survived GSoC on the student end of things in 2008. | | I survived GSoC on the student end of things in 2008. |
| + | |
| + | === Tomeu === |
| + | |
| + | *Name/contact |
| + | |
| + | [[User:Tomeu | Tomeu Vizoso]] |
| + | |
| + | *Timezone |
| + | |
| + | Central European Time |
| + | |
| + | *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? |
| + | |
| + | PyGTK-based activities or Sugar improvements. |
| + | |
| + | *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 4-6 hours a week. |
| + | |
| + | *What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)? |
| + | |
| + | Coded activities and for the sugar shell for more than two years now. |
| + | |
| + | *What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have? |
| + | |
| + | Last year mentored one intern at OLPC. |
| + | |
| + | *Anything else you think is relevant. |
| + | |
| + | Nah. |
| + | |
| + | === [[User:Bobbyp|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. |
| + | |
| + | === [[User:Sebastian|Sebastian]] === |
| + | |
| + | *Name/contact |
| + | |
| + | Sebastian Silva (sebastian at fuentelibre.org), (gmail alternative: sebatustra) |
| + | |
| + | icarito on IRC |
| + | |
| + | *Timezone |
| + | |
| + | Lima, Perú (UTC-5) |
| + | |
| + | *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? |
| + | |
| + | PyGTK-based activities, especially "social" activities. |
| + | |
| + | *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 helping a teacher group this (northern summer), that leaves me enough time to commit to this (at least 4-6 hours a week, more if needed). It also is a great chance for some user feedback. |
| + | |
| + | *What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)? |
| + | |
| + | 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? |
| + | |
| + | 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. |
| + | |
| + | 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. |
| + | |
| + | === [[User:Lglira|Lglira]] === |
| + | |
| + | *Name/contact |
| + | |
| + | Luis Gustavo Lira, BSc, MSc lira.lg at pucp.edu.pe |
| + | |
| + | *Timezone |
| + | |
| + | Lima, Perú (UTC-5) |
| + | |
| + | *What kind of projects could/would you mentor? |
| + | |
| + | Networking, Hardware Projects, Python, Activities (science, math, entrepreneurship). |
| + | |
| + | *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 mentor 1 o 2 students. |
| + | |
| + | *What relevant coding experience do you have (very briefly, two sentences at most)? |
| + | |
| + | Engineer 10 years working experience, CIO and Executive level since 2006. |
| + | |
| + | *What relevant mentoring (or related) experience do you have? |
| + | |
| + | Consultant for big telecomms, systems integrators, etc. |
| + | 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)? |
| + | 10 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? |
| + | |
| + | 5-6 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]] |