Who should be the mentor

[lafau]

Hi,

I have query regarding who should be the mentor for the project under Google Open Source Programs Office?

Can I have a professor from my own institute to be as  mentor ?

With Regards
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Kumar Lav
Senior Undergraduate
Computer Science and Engineering
IIT bombay

[Leslie Hawthorn]

Yes you can. In fact, if you intend to submit a proposal to Google's Open Source Programs Office you must identify your mentor in the application when it is submitted, including contact information. We will verify with your would-be mentor that s/he is available to work with you if we are considering accepting your application.

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[Debajyoti Nag]

In this case, does that would be mentor need to apply separately to gsoc?

Dj  was here>.......

[Leslie Hawthorn]

If the project were to be selected, Google would work to get the mentor registered under Google's Open Source Programs Office.

[Debajyoti Nag]

Okay. Also, could you please clarify if the mentor's organisation ( i.e., his professional organisation, not registered to GSOC and not related to the project) would have anything to do with the program or it could be based entirely on his personal choice?

And also, could two students, with the mentor's permission, work towards a single project?

[Debajyoti Nag]

Am still waiting for someone to clarify. Theses issues are not very clear in the FAQ.

[Leslie Hawthorn]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Debajyoti Nag <dave...@gmail.com> wrote:

Am still waiting for someone to clarify. Theses issues are not very clear in the FAQ.

Please be patient when waiting for an answer - 22 hours is not really that long. :)

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Debajyoti Nag <dave...@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay. Also, could you please clarify if the mentor's organisation ( i.e., his professional organisation, not registered to GSOC and not related to the project) would have anything to do with the program or it could be based entirely on his personal choice?

And also, could two students, with the mentor's permission, work towards a single project?

 

If I understand your question, you are asking if the mentor's professional organization (e.g. The Example Company or Example University) would be affiliated with Google Summer of Code. The answer is not really - it is a mentor's choice to mentor, regardless of her professional affiliations. Of course, if she wanted to put a note on her home page that was hosted by Example University that she was mentoring a Google Summer of Code project and provide further details, that would be fine. But this would not make Example University a GSoC participant.

Cheers,
LH

[Debajyoti Nag]

I apologize for being impatient, but I am really excited about the project. Hope you understand.

And thanks for the explanations.

But what about two students working under the mentor on he same project. The FAQ says :

1. Can a group apply for and work on a single proposal?

No, only an individual may work on a given project. Of course, students should feel free to collaborate with others to accomplish their project goals.

2. What happens if two students are accepted to work on the same project, e.g. from an organization's "Ideas" list?

That's fine, a little duplication is par for the course in open source.

I think that the students are allowed to work individually on the same project, means that there would be two different instances of the project.

Anyways, I could not get a clear idea from this. I used this FAQ link. http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs

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[Leslie Hawthorn]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Debajyoti Nag <dave...@gmail.com> wrote:

I apologize for being impatient, but I am really excited about the project. Hope you understand.

And thanks for the explanations.

But what about two students working under the mentor on he same project. The FAQ says :

1. Can a group apply for and work on a single proposal?

No, only an individual may work on a given project. Of course, students should feel free to collaborate with others to accomplish their project goals.

2. What happens if two students are accepted to work on the same project, e.g. from an organization's "Ideas" list?

That's fine, a little duplication is par for the course in open source.

I think that the students are allowed to work individually on the same project, means that there would be two different instances of the project.

Anyways, I could not get a clear idea from this. I used this FAQ link. http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs

Students are allowed to work with the same mentor. Students are also allowed to work on different implementations of the same idea, but they are responsible for their own work and are expected to produce their own code, not a group submitting code for a particular project. Of course, students are welcome to collaborate with their fellow students and their communities - this is open source after all, doing things in a vacuum is not going to lead to success - but at the end of the day a student is expected to accomplish a set of deliverables as laid out in their project proposal and to produce the deliverables herself.

Cheers,
LH

[Debajyoti Nag]

Thanks!! 

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