As a mentor you get the opportunity to mentor a newbie in open source on your favourite project.
There are 3 steps to becoming a GSoC mentor:
- Propose a project relavant to Cypherock Wallet and its ongoing/future goals.
- Interact with students in the student application phase, answer their questions and help them develop their applications
- Review student applications to your organization and project. Select a student(s) to work with you!
As a mentor you have the following responsibilities:
- Carefully plan out a project, expectations, deliverables with the student you take on.
- Make sure you have enough experience with the project you’re proposing.
- Mentor the student throughout the code period, making sure they have a good development/testing setup and a good way to get started.
- Review their progress regularly.