* Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> [2014-03-14 10:23:35 +0100]: > On 14/03/14 10:15, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > 2014-03-14 10:02 GMT+01:00 Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> There are several female candidates for GSoC (both in Debian and also in > >> Ganglia where I am one of the admins this year) > >> > >> I'm just wondering if there are any female DDs who may not want to be a > >> mentor for any arbitrary project but may participate as a co-mentor on a > >> project where there is a female student? > >> > >> For example, while one mentor may be able to help the student with the > >> technical aspects of the project, an additional mentor may be able to > >> help the student become familiar with the community at large even if > >> they don't have time to become fully involved in the individual GSoC > >> project. > > I think it's a great Idea, and probably more productive than doing any > > of both things alone. Would it help if the female co-mentor is > > familiar with the project itself, or it's totally irrelevant? Like, > > for example, say that the project involves aspects thet the co-mentor > > is not familiar with (like a particular programming language or the > > tools used for developing whatever the project is about), or the idea > > is to keep both things -development of the project and involvement in > > debian structures- independent? > > Any positive contribution from a co-mentor is going to be very welcome > > Knowing the tools and technologies is obviously beneficial but it is not > everything. > > There have been several cases where projects have been completed but it > has not been possible to deploy them or utilize them within Debian. In > these cases what has been missing is the interaction with the wider > community, DSA, etc - so just having somebody who knows the way the > community operates can help close that gap. > > In the past, many of the students have attended DebConf as well - if > there are several co-mentors on the project, there is more probability > that one will be able to meet the student at DebConf Hi, I just stumbled across this thread, and I agree that it is a great idea to seek help from other people to integrate our GSoC students better in our community. We welcome any effort to that effect, be that under the debian-women umbrella for women interns specifically, or from anybody really. If you want to keep in touch with GSoC activities, you can subscribe to the soc-coordination mailing list on alioth[1], where the students can send their enquiries and will report on their projects. Thanks a bunch! [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination -- Nicolas Dandrimont BOFH excuse #153: Big to little endian conversion error
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