Re: [Tuxmath-devel] [Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Tux4Kids has no mentors for GSoC 2011 (as of yet)

[Jesus M. <fo...@gm...>]

Hi David!

It is hard the hear that no one have  time this year! Sadly I am in my
last year at the university, and I am very busy and I also don't want
to leave a student with out attention. I got this experience the first
time I was mentor. On the Admin question, it is hard for me because my
nad English.
But let me see, I can try to do an effort. My idea is continue the
work on TuxHistory, but one of the biggest problems I have now is the
lack of an integrated GUI TuxHistory. So I was thinking about the
possibility of including a own (basic) GUI in TuxCommons. What do you
think abut it?

2011/3/8 David Bruce <dav...@gm...>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> (sorry about the cross-post, I want to make sure this message gets out)
>
> As things stand now, no one has offered to be a mentor for this year's
> GSoC for Tux4Kids.
>
> If you are too busy to make a commitment, I know how you feel, and
> this year I sort of feel that way myself.  I had hoped someone else
> would offer to be the GSoC admin this year for our projects.  I've
> decided I'm willing to do that, as long as we have mentors for the
> projects, but so far no one has agreed to be a mentor.
>
> If the consensus is to sit this year out, I'm more or less OK with
> that.  For sure on the tuxmath/tuxtype side, there are a ton of "loose
> ends" that ought to be taken care of before we add major or invasive
> new features, and I get the sense the same is true for Tux Paint.
> Still, GSoC is our biggest opportunity to bring new developers into
> the project, so I would like to participate if there is interest.  But
> if no one can mentor, it's a moot point.  For the last two years, I
> was both admin and mentor, and I felt like I didn't give my students
> as much attention as they deserved.
>
> So, if you want to be a mentor, and it is news to you that we might
> not participate this year due to lack of mentors, let me know right
> away (as in by Thursday AM).  The deadline for us to submit an
> organization application is Friday.  I don't want anyone feeling
> shocked after the fact if we don't apply to participate this year.
>
> As always, thanks everyone for everything you have contributed.  I
> don't want anyone to get the idea that they should feel obligated to
> volunteer.
>
> Best,
>
> David Bruce
>
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