SoC 2007 Mentors

at http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2008-mentors

Hi guys, I'm now in Sunnyvale, and feelin dizzy. Shared a shuttle ride from the airport to our hotel. Tomorrow na ang Summit and I can't wait to see Googleplex and meet the other SoC'ers.

Pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=16822&l=b68eb&id=677221339
and here http://apophenicpinoy.multiply.com/photos/album/13/San_Francisco_Intl_Airport_to_Sunnyvale_CA

For the second year in a row, Google is putting on a Summer of Code Mentor Summit at their Mountainview Campus on Oct. 6, to allow all the projects to come together and share success stories, advice, lessons learned, and brainstorm about how to make the project better. Each project gets to send up to 3 delegates to the summit.

Here's the list of Drupal folks who will be attending:

1. Rok Žlender, who was a successful SoC student turned successful SoC mentor, as well as just an awesome guy all around. :) Google loves getting to meet the faces behind their success stories. :)
2. Ruben D. Canlas Jr., who is a Drupal SoC veteran, and has offered testing and useful advice to several students in the SoC-2007 group.
3. Simon Hobbs, who is a SoC first-timer whose student couldn't say enough nice things about him, and who was very active both in #drupal-soc and in the SoC-2007 group providing advice.

Congratulations, folks! I'll be e-mailing you with the next steps. :)

This is just a reminder that July 9 there is a mid-term evaluation:

Students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; mentors begin mid-term evaluations

More timeframe info is here: http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60325&topic=10729

For any mentors who can make it, please help participate in the SoC Cookoff Dojo lesson. The SoC students will be introducing themselves, and will be asking questions to help them get started.

Just had time now to flesh out one of Dries's wish lists. It's located here: http://drupal.org/node/133560. Comments and suggestions will be appreciated.

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Google has just announced that Summer of Code 2007 is officially on! The timeline for the program is drastically different than either of the previous two years'... Students will know they're accepted on April 9, although the program doesn't formally start until May 28. The goal is to allow students plenty of time to integrate into their respective open source communities. Sounds like a really great change.

Here's a list of stuff we need to do in the next couple months: