[Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel] Proposal: moving "assisting mentors" back to role for GSoC 2020

[Samson Goddy]

Hello everyone,

The quicker we understand that Sugar Labs is an "educational project," then
the better for us, we have been battling on matters that in "my opinion" is
pointless.  That said, First, I don't understand the whole point for
labeling someone an "assistant mentor," this is a community we need to be
sensitive to what put out there. First, I listed myself as an "assistant
mentor" not because I cannot code, but because I am focusing on the other
part of the "community" which is keeping things healthy and welcoming, we
are all volunteers, we should respect that fact.

Honestly removing me from GSoC because of "expect the previous assistant
mentors to either promote themselves to the position of mentor by showing
their expertise or be content with participation within the wider Sugar
Labs community." At the same time, I can easily prove that by sending PRs,
I don't think the same applies to folks that cannot code, again I wasn't
born in the 80s, but I am sure in 2020, there is more aspect to software
than just coding. Let us stop doing things that will drive folks away;
everyone is important.


I am not an org admin; I grew up with Sugar, correctly understand how Sugar
was created but chose to focus primarily on something that will keep "Sugar
Labs" healthy. I don't see how having extra folks into a project as
"mentors" will hurt the student performance. It gives the student a more
broad knowledge of what to do to make the project usable, maintainable, and
scalable.


We have more important things to focus on than argue about assistant
mentorship.

Regards

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 12:23 PM Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi James,
>
> Thanks for this.
>
> I think that assisting mentor notion has no sense.
> We need to have one mentor that lead the project with some co-mentors to
> supply him when/if he's unavailable. Each mentor could ask help or advice
> to other members of the community if needed, we don't need to identify
> these guys as "Assisting mentor".
>
> As Stephanie said in the thread you mention: "Unfortunately some people
> want to be a mentor because they think it will look good on their resume,
> these are not the folks you want to be mentoring students.". I'm afraid
> it's the same thing with "Assisting mentor".
>
> Regards.
>
>           Lionel.
>
>
> Le ven. 13 mars 2020 à 08:31, <sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org> a
> écrit :
>
>>
>> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:55:16 +1100
>> From: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
>> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Proposal: moving "assisting mentors" back to
>>         the community role for GSoC 2020
>> Message-ID: <20200313055516.GM28657 at laptop.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> Walter and I are your organisation administrators for GSoC 2020.
>>
>> On the GSoc Mentors mailing list from 8th March and still going is a
>> thread "Deadline to invite mentors" which morphed into the expertise
>> required of mentors to do a project [1].
>>
>> After putting forward the Sugar Labs compromise practice of "coding
>> mentors" and "assistant mentors", there has been both criticism and
>> support for the practice from other organisation administrators.  The
>> criticism has been voluminous and well stated.  The support
>> comparatively muted.
>>
>> I'd like to hear what the Sugar Labs community thinks now.
>>
>> The effect of the change [2] can be seen here [3].
>>
>> In implementing the change we would;
>>
>> - require _all_ project communication to be carried out in the open,
>>   on GitHub, mailing list, or IRC,
>>
>> - expect the previous assistant mentors to either promote themselves
>>   to the position of mentor by showing their expertise, or be content
>>   with participation within the wider Sugar Labs community.
>>
>> - remove from the dashboard the previous assistant mentors who are no
>>   longer listed against a project,
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
>> References:
>>
>> 1.
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/CAJzXzVEkw%2BOT6nSXvTraNaNqNdR6h0mbjFtaejJcUnueU4YX4Q%40mail.gmail.com
>>
>> 2.  https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/pull/94
>>
>> 3.  https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/tree/simplify
>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>>
>>
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