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<h2 class="content-head content-head is-center">Mentors</h2>
<p>Interested in volunteering with the Python Software Foundation?</p>
<p><strong>The biggest job is mentoring students</strong>: Mentoring a
student as a primary mentor can be a pretty big time commitment (see
"<a href="#whatmentor">What does it take to be a mentor?</a>" for more information) but it's a very
rewarding chance to give a student an open source apprenticeship.
We mentor in teams, so if all you can handle is a few code reviews or taking
over for a week while someone's on vacation, you can team up with someone with more time.</p>
<p><strong>The easiest way to become a mentor is to be part of one of the sub-orgs
that plan to be involved</strong>, so get in touch with them directly if you want to
help. If you're part of a group that would like to participate as a sub-org,
please read the section for sub-orgs below.</p>
<p></p>If you're not already part of a group
that wants to participate, we can try to match you with one, but be aware that to do
the best job of mentoring you're going to need to know the open source project pretty
well yourself. If you're not already a developer, you should be prepared to become
an active community member.
</p>
<p><strong>But we often need other volunteers!</strong> We're also looking for
friendly community members to help with other tasks! We'd love to have more
people available on IRC/Mailing lists to answer student and mentor
questions in various time zones. We are particularly looking for volunteers
who can read and comment on student blogs, remind students if they haven't
posted, and promote the work our students do to the larger Python community.
Or maybe you have another skillset you'd like to contribute? (Proofreading?
Recruiting diverse student applicants?) If you want to help, we can try to
find a way to make that happen.</p>
<p><strong>If you'd like to volunteer, get in touch with a sub-org admin or
email the Python org admins at gsoc-admins(at)python(dot)org </strong></p>
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<h2 class="content-head content-head is-center">What does it take to be a mentor?</h2>
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Time commitment
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<p><strong>We expect around a 0-10hr/week commitment</strong>, which sounds scary, but it's not
actually that
variable. You usually spend up to lots of time for the first few weeks, where you're
fleshing out your ideas page, discussing projects with many students, and selecting
students from their proposals. After students are selected and settled in, it becomes more
like
a 1hr
commitment per week for a weekly meeting, and maybe a few more hours here and there for
code review or questions. (That depends on your student: experienced students may need
very little supervision, inexperienced students may need more. It also depends on you: You
and your co-mentor(s) select the student and project you mentor, so you can choose
according to the time commitment you have. Some mentors even do pair programming with
their students!)</p>
<p>I recommend at least one mentor has a <strong>weekly 1hr meeting with the student</strong>
so
they get to
know each other, keep everyone on track, and give a chance to talk about other stuff. Lots
of students have questions about jobs, courses, architecture, open source, etc. and it's
nice for students to have someone to talk to especially since many of them will not have
worked
remotely
on their own for any length of time before. Some weeks this meeting may be the only
mentoring
time
needed.</p>
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Work Together
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<p>We want <strong>at least two mentors per project</strong>, so hopefully no one ever gets
overwhelmed and
feels like they're always on call (Google does ask that we try to answer questions within
48h so students can't get stuck for too long), and no one mentor has to know all the
answers.</p>
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Knowledge required
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<p><strong>Our most successful mentors are those who are already developers or community
members of
their open source project.</strong> If you're joining a new project for GSoC, expect to
take time
to learn the ropes yourself so you can help students. </p>
<p>Mentors don't have to be the Best At Everything. A lot of what mentors do is keep students
on track and keep them from getting stuck for too long. Sometimes that means just knowing
who to ask or where to look rather than knowing the answer yourself. </p>
<p>In an ideal world, at
least one mentor can answer at least basic architectural questions and knows how to get
code accepted upstream. Not every mentor has to be a coder: experienced users can help
students understand why features make sense (or dont!), system administrators can help
student
understand how deployment works in practice, experts in areas like accessibility,
usability,
and security could help guide students in their areas of expertise.</p>
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Evaluating students
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<p>Mentors do have to do multiple evaluations on the student, two mid-terms and one at the end.
Usually the mentors discuss
and then the "primary" mentor fills in the evaluation with input from all mentors.
There's a
few questions about how the student is doing and then a pass/fail that determines if the
student gets paid and continues in the program.</p>
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<h2 class="content-head content-head is-center">Sub Orgs</h2>
<p>To participate under the Python umbrella, a sub-org must do the following:
<ol>
<li>Be a Python-based open source project that <a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq#what_are_the_eligibility_requirements_for_a_mentoring_organization">meets
Google's requirements
for GSoC</a>.
<li>Have one sub-org admin and at least two mentors who are willing to commit
to the full GSoC period. (More is awesome!)
<ul>
<li>If you want to connect with more potential volunteers,
email gsoc-admins@python.org
to see if we can match you with volunteers who don't have a project.</li>
</ul>
<li>Accept the <a href="https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/">Python
Community Code of Conduct</a> for the duration of the
program.
<li>Send an email indicating interest to gsoc-admins(at)python(dot)org before
the Python deadline (exceptions <em>can</em> be made if you get an amazing
student applicant later and want to sign up just for them).
<li>Have a good ideas page. <a href="#orgtemplate">We have a template below.</a> Getting a
really
great page
sometimes takes a few rounds of revisions; Meflin will work with you to make
sure your page is ready! Once you're ready for review, you can <a href="https://github.com/python-gsoc/python-gsoc.github.io">send
a pull request to get
added to this page</a>
<li>Be able to handle <a href="deadlines.html">meeting deadlines</a> and following both Google
and Python's rules. We try to send important reminders for big deadlines, but we only
have limited volunteer time for nagging and cajoling. Groups that cause repeated problems
may be asked to take time off to limit core volunteer burnout.
<li>Disclose all potential conflicts of interest to the Python admins <b>BEFORE</b> accepting a
student. If you are unsure, ask. If a conflict is found after the fact the student and
sub-org may be dropped from the program. (Examples: student is involved in your research
group,
student is your child, student owes you money, etc.)
</ol>
<p>We can't promise to take everyone who meets those criteria, but we do try to
take any group that we feel will give the students a great experience.
Terri has final say in which projects participate under the Python
umbrella, but please send any queries to all the admins at
gsoc-admins(at)python(dot)org to make sure we're all on the same page.</p>
<p><strong>Python projects are welcome and encouraged to apply as separate
mentoring organizations directly with Google.</strong> We're happy to help
you in any way we can and we don't mind being your backup plan. We're also
happy to help advertise python based organizations not under our umbrella: we
want students to find projects that best suit them!</p>
<p>Please note: The funds Google gives Python as mentor stipends are given to the
<a href="https://www.python.org/psf/grants/">PSF grants program</a> rather than
dispensed per sub-org.
</p>
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<h2 class="content-head content-head is-center">Python Sub-org Ideas Template
</h2>
<p>There are not very many strict requirements for Google Summer of Code Ideas pages, but
there are some things that students often ask us for. This page is intended as a starting
template for organizations so you don't forget those things.
<p>Warning: In 2014, many orgs got rejected because their ideas pages were offline when
Google checked. <strong>Make sure your ideas page is hosted somewhere that Google's Open
Source
Programs Office will be able to access when they check!</strong>
<h2>About MyOrg</h2>
<p>Tell the students a bit about your organization. Here's some questions you might want to
answer:
<ul>
<li>What software are you creating?
<li>Why is it interesting?
<li>Who uses it?
<li>What languages is it written in?
<li>How is it going to change the world?
</ul>
<h2>Contacting MyOrg</h2>
<ul>
<li>IRC channel:
<li>Mailing list(s):
<li>List contact methods you actually use and will have mentors monitoring!
</ul>
<p>Include any special instructions/info about communicating: e.g. what time zones are
your
mentors in? do you prefer it if gsoc students introduce themselves first or just
dive
in?
are there any common mistakes students make when making a first impression?
<h2>Getting Started</h2>
<p>Links to setup instructions go here. Some suggested things to answer:
<ul>
<li>Where is the link to a setup guide for new developers?
<li>Are there any unusual libraries/applications that need to be installed
first?
<li>What type of source control do you use? (include links to help and
setup
guides!)
<li>What's the process for submitting your first bug fix?
<li>Where should students look to find easy bugs to try out?
</ul>
<h2>Writing your GSoC application</h2>
<p>Links to advice about applications and the application template goes here.
<ul>
<li>Remind your students that your sub-org name must be in the title of
their
applications!
<li>Here's a link to the <a href="index.html#apply">student application
information for Python</a>
</ul>
<h2>Project Ideas</h2>
<p>You should usually have a couple of project ideas, ranging in difficulty
from beginner to
expert. Please do try to have at least one, preferably several beginner
tasks: GSoC gets a
lot of students with minimal open source experience who feel very
discouraged (and
sometimes even complain to Google) if orgs don't any have projects at
their
level.
<h3>1. Project name</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Project description</strong>: Make sure you have a
high-level description that any student can
understand, as well as deeper details
<li><strong>Skills</strong>: programming languages? specific domain
knowledge?
<li><strong>Difficulty level</strong>: Easy/Intermediate/Hard
classification (students ask for this info
frequently to help them narrow down their choices. Difficulty
levels are something Google
wants to see, so they aren't optional; make your best guess.)
<li><strong>Related Readings/Links</strong>: was there a mailing
list
discussion about this topic?
standards you want the students to read first? bugs/feature
requests?
<li><strong>Potential mentors</strong>: A list of mentors likely to
be
involved with this project, so
students know who to look for on IRC/mailing lists if they have
questions. (If you've had
trouble with students overwhelming specific mentors, feel free
to
re-iterate here if
students should contact the mailing list to reach all mentors.)
</ul>
<h3>2. Project name</h3>
<p>As above. etc. Unless there's a compelling reason to sort in some
other
order, ideas
should be ordered approximately from easiest to hardest.
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