On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnus...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 00:03, Elizabeth M Smith > <auroraeosr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think we really should encourage at least two active mentors for each >> project this year. I think it helps both the students (always someone >> to annoy) and the mentors (less stress and time out of their lives) and >> provides a safety net if a mentor has real life issues come up. But for >> that we need more people willing to mentor ;) > > If we create a "php-gsoc@" mailinglist where all the students and > mentors, and everyone else who wants to follow the student work, and > require students to post weekly/by-weekly status updates then there is > no need. The community can then help the mentor out and we get more > information about the projects. > > I still don't know what happened to many of the gsoc projects last > year, despite my multiple inquires to the mentors of the projects, and > haven't heard a beep from most of the students :( > > Lets keep it in the OSS style. Communicate in the open.
Agreed. As a sidenote, the wiki has an account request system, simply request an account if you do not have yet one and likes to propose ideas. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
