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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

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 = Mentor Responsibilities =
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 * Communicate availability and interaction expectations
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 ** Formally evaluate student participation
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+...'''to your Students'''
 * Help and/or teach the student how to