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Revision as of 14:26, 10 October 2017
Mentors
If you're interested in mentoring students for an OSGeo project, please fill out the Google form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_p46X0aExtGAFGpu4lrVnjitLsqOnqRfa2kfvCm_sI0/
# | Name | Country | OSGeo Project | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Shawn Goulet | shawn.goulet at gmail.com | United States | FOSS4G |
2 | Guido Stein | guido at guidostein.com | United States | OSGeo |
3 | Vicky Vergara Castillo | vicky at georepublic.de | Mexico | pgRouting, OSGeo-Live |
4 | Veronica Andreo | veroandreo at gmail.com | Netherlands | GRASS GIS |
5 | Rohith Reddy Sankepally | rohithreddy2219 at gmail.com | India | pgRouting |
6 | Aurelien Xavier Payong Djiomegni | aurelienxavier93 at gmail.com | Cameroon | |
7 | Victoria Rautenbach | victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com | South Africa | |
8 | Jeff McKenna | jmckenna at osgeo.org | Canada | MapServer, OSGeo, FOSS4G |
9 | Luca Delucchi | lucadeluge at gmail.com | Italy | GRASS GIS |
10 | Nadia Chaer | nadiachaer at gmail.com | Uruguay | |
11 | Vidhan Jain | vidhanj1307 at gmail.com | India | pgRouting |
12 | Carlos I. Colombana | carlos.colombana at gmail.com | Uruguay | gvSIG |
13 | Arne Schubert | azd.schubert at gmail.com | Germany | Mapbender |
14 | Daniel Kastl | daniel at georepublic.de | Japan | pgRouting |
15 | Regina Obe | lr at pcorp.us | United States | PostGIS |
16 | Stefan Keller | sfkeller at hsr.ch | Switzerland | QGIS |
17 | Yewondwossen Assefa | assefay at gmail.com | Canada/Nigeria | MapServer, OSGeo |
Mentor Responsibilities
...to OSGeo gci-admin team
- Communicate availability and interaction expectations
- Inform gci-admin team when mentoring capacity will be reduced, as early as possible (e.g., family, health, vacation)
- Inform gci-admin team when there is an issue with a student
- Lacking communication, activity, visibility (MIA), or progress
- Participant Agreement violations (e.g., plagiarism, harassment, fraud)
- Bad fit or stepping down
- Formally evaluate student participation
...to your Students
- Help and/or teach the student how to
- be a part of your community
- communicate more effectively and in the open
- work with your org’s preferred communication channel (IRC, Slack, etc)
- use your org’s version control system
- ask good questions and get answers to their questions
- provide convincing technical argument and constructive discussion
- be independently motivated and productive
- solve difficult technical problems
- Keep track of their progress, keep student informed as to their status
- Give constructive feedback, be patient (particularly for GCI), and be respectful
- Respond to questions within 24 hours (occasionally under 36 hours is ok)
- Establish realistic work objectives and timeline expectations
- Re-evaluate scope with student when significantly ahead of or behind expectations
- Give them extra time on a task as warranted
- Work with devs and community to facilitate acceptance of student work