<div dir="ltr"><div>A mentor is supposed to be someone who is part of the community and in Stephanie's words "...you definitely need people who are integrated into your community who
can help welcome the students as the point of the program is to keep
them involved in your communities post GSoC."</div><div><br></div><div>All the assisting mentors are part of our community and can help welcome students, they have experience in certain areas that can help</div><div>the students. The idea of the assisting mentors was to help in "non technical" situations or to whatever extent they can,</div><div>personally I don't agree with the tags but here we are.</div><div><br></div><div>Stephanie also said "Not everyone should be a mentor. You want someone who can teach and guide the student." and all <br></div><div>the assisting mentors can do that to a certain extent.<br></div><div></div><div>We know them, they're members of the community and they've shown their expertise at one point or the other. <br></div><div>They may not have all the technical skills required for a project but they're certainly useful and I don't see a reason why they should <br></div><div>be removed from being a mentor. <br></div><div><br></div><div>If at any point the org admins deem it fit to remove any mentor because of lack of participation then they <br></div><div>can do that.<br></div><div><div><br></div></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre style="color:rgb(46,52,54);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">-- <br></span></pre><div style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-size:14.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;width:71ch"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span></span><span></span>Ibiam Chihurumnaya <br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-size:14.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;width:71ch"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><a href="mailto:ibiamchihurumnaya@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(42,118,198)" target="_blank">ibiamchihurumnaya@gmail.com</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-size:14.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;width:71ch"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:55 AM James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Walter and I are your organisation administrators for GSoC 2020.<br>
<br>
On the GSoc Mentors mailing list from 8th March and still going is a<br>
thread "Deadline to invite mentors" which morphed into the expertise<br>
required of mentors to do a project [1].<br>
<br>
After putting forward the Sugar Labs compromise practice of "coding<br>
mentors" and "assistant mentors", there has been both criticism and<br>
support for the practice from other organisation administrators. The<br>
criticism has been voluminous and well stated. The support<br>
comparatively muted.<br>
<br>
I'd like to hear what the Sugar Labs community thinks now.<br>
<br>
The effect of the change [2] can be seen here [3].<br>
<br>
In implementing the change we would;<br>
<br>
- require _all_ project communication to be carried out in the open,<br>
on GitHub, mailing list, or IRC,<br>
<br>
- expect the previous assistant mentors to either promote themselves<br>
to the position of mentor by showing their expertise, or be content<br>
with participation within the wider Sugar Labs community.<br>
<br>
- remove from the dashboard the previous assistant mentors who are no<br>
longer listed against a project,<br>
<br>
What do you think?<br>
<br>
<br>
References:<br>
<br>
1. <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/CAJzXzVEkw%2BOT6nSXvTraNaNqNdR6h0mbjFtaejJcUnueU4YX4Q%40mail.gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/CAJzXzVEkw%2BOT6nSXvTraNaNqNdR6h0mbjFtaejJcUnueU4YX4Q%40mail.gmail.com</a><br>
<br>
2. <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/pull/94" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/pull/94</a><br>
<br>
3. <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/tree/simplify" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/tree/simplify</a><br>
<br>
-- <br>
James Cameron<br>
<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br>
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