GSoC new mentor advice

This page is intended to give tips to Google Summer of Code mentors looking to work on a Linux XIA project with their mentee.

Table of Contents Guidelines Optional Reading Materials

Guidelines

• As required by Google, mentors should not comment on who was accepted or rejected before Google announces it publicly.
• Schedule a one-to-one weekly meeting with your mentee. You may skip this meeting once in a while when you have enough communication during the week. But having this meeting will help you and the student to build a bond, so don't neglect this contact. Any software can be used for these meetings, it's entirely up to mentor and mentee.
• Try hard to reply your mentee within 24h. Moreover, if you see a mentee message in our mailing list that hasn't been replied for 24h, you should feel free to reply it.
• If your mentee is in another timezone, you should remind him/her of the difficulties that this causes, and be conscious of it.
• You should encourage your mentees to attend our all-hands meetings.
• Require your mentee to release his/her work, and report progress online somewhere (a blog or project wiki page) on a weekly basis. Moreover, keep our organization informed regarding your project updates via our mailing list.
• Before the end of the program make sure the project is well documented and all the known bugs are filed.
• If you realize there is any emergency or major problem brewing, reach out to our organization immediately, don’t keep it to yourself, let us help you resolve it.
• After the mentees are accepted, you should make a call to their backup contact, and know their relationship, etc.
• As the topic of this section says, these are guidelines. If you have an idea to improve our communication, don't be shy, we'd like to listen to your suggestions.

Optional Reading Materials

• The DOs and DON’Ts of Google Summer of Code: Mentor Edition
• One minute manager

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask our mailing list or contact our organization. We would be happy to help, and hope that this can be a mutually beneficial experience for our organization and all mentors involved. Thank you for your interest!