Do we meet our mentor in person?

[TopOfAlps]

A vary silly question. I know for most open source projects developers
are all over the world. But for this specific activity.
Are we gonna have a mentor that will help you in person or do we just
stay at home and code while communicating with our mentors with IRC?

[Akarsh Simha]

Nope. You stay at home, code and communicate on IRC / Mailing Lists /
EMail, but you might get lucky and get a mentor who stays nearby.

Regards
Akarsh

[Yuval Levy]

actually it is not a silly question (there is no such thing as a silly
question), and the answer is not so straight.

during my three years experience as admin and mentor our team came to
the conclusion that face to face meetings are very beneficial to
community integration; to develop mutual understanding; to better
leverage the ensuing virtual communication. It is well worth the cost
and effort of organizing meetups.

In those years that I've been the admin, I've interviewed each and every
serious candidate with a complete application by phone, and I've tried
to arrange for them to meet somebody, ideally within the context of a
relevant FLOSS conference.

This year we were lucky to meet all our students - half of them at Libre
Graphics Meeting and the other half at a private meeting.

We try to work around the unavoidable constraints of physical location,
time, budget. This years two of the students had their traveling covered
by university professors. Two were practically local to the meeting and
paid their own short distance train ticket. One had his ticket paid with
community funds. For the lodging, at both location we had place on
mentor's couches; and the rest is fun.

Yuv
2007-2009 Hugin/Panotools

[Obey Arthur Liu]

Some of the larger organizations host annual international developer conferences during the summer. You would most probably meet your mentor there. 

Arthur

[Yang Kun]

I want to participating 2010 year's google summer of code.
Today i look 2009 year's participating projects ,but I'm not familiar
with some project.I was embittered by this.

The following is my skill & interests, please tell me what is project
for me.
Thanks very much.

Professional Skills
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24months
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EJB2.0 、Xml、webService、Ajax | expert | 24months
Language: Java and Python | expert | 36months

interests & hobbies
Be interested in search engine.
Be interested in mobile phone game.

Yang Kun

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