Participating in GSoC
From Google Summer of Code Mentor Wiki
[edit] for Mentoring Organizatons
- Deciding to apply as a mentoring organization
- Finding mentors
- Attracting students
- Creating infrastructure for GSoC
- Creating an ideas list
- Evaluating student applications
- Recognizing contributions from students
- Mentor burnout
- Retaining students
- Tips for first-time orgs
- Best of the ideas-lists - various org admins and mentors post their comments on what they learned from looking at other orgs ideas lists, and what they did differently when they applied.
- The ideas-list doctor - leave your orgs name here a link to the ideas page and e-mail contact id, we'll pay a house call. In return you'll write it up on this wiki.
[edit] for Mentors
- Ideas from experienced mentors
- Evaluating students during coding
- Planning the 12 weeks of GSoC coding
- Motivating students
- Communicating with students
- Dealing with non-performing students
- Dealing with outstanding students
