Summer of Code Mentor Summit

[Mark Doliner]

Hi!  We've been participating in Google's Summer of Code[1] for the
past few years.  And for the past few years Google has hosted a
"mentor summit" at the end of each summer.  Google pays for travel and
hotel cost for twoish mentors from each organization to hang out at
Google's Mountain View, CA, USA office for two days and talk about our
experience with summer of code.  It's one of those "unconference"
things.  Mentors share advice with each other in the hopes of doing
things better next year.

This year's mentor summit is this weekend (yes, like, right now), and
we're sending Ethan Blanton (Paco-Paco), Gary Kramlich (grim) and me
(KingAnt)(I'm local).

This email doesn't have much of a purpose, just wanted to keep people
informed...  Also, Ka-Hing or Casey or any other devs who happen to be
in the area, if anyone wants to meet up or anything let me know.

(And my apologies for not sending this email earlier.)

-Mark

[1] http://code.google.com/soc/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

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[Mark Doliner]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Mark Doliner <mark@...> wrote:

> Hi!  We've been participating in Google's Summer of Code[1] for the
> past few years.  And for the past few years Google has hosted a
> "mentor summit" at the end of each summer.  Google pays for travel and
> hotel cost for twoish mentors from each organization to hang out at
> Google's Mountain View, CA, USA office for two days and talk about our
> experience with summer of code.  It's one of those "unconference"
> things.  Mentors share advice with each other in the hopes of doing
> things better next year.
>
> This year's mentor summit is this weekend (yes, like, right now), and
> we're sending Ethan Blanton (Paco-Paco), Gary Kramlich (grim) and me
> (KingAnt)(I'm local).
>
> This email doesn't have much of a purpose, just wanted to keep people
> informed...  Also, Ka-Hing or Casey or any other devs who happen to be
> in the area, if anyone wants to meet up or anything let me know.
>
> (And my apologies for not sending this email earlier.)
>
> -Mark
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/soc/
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

It went well!

Notes from the various sessions are publicly available at
http://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/Session_Notes_2009
My random assortment of notes is at http://thekingant.livejournal.com/94571.html
Some pictures from the summit are at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mentorsummit09/

We had a guy take a few pictures of Ethan, Gary and I in front of the
big Android on Google's campus, but I don't see them on Flickr or
Facebook yet.  Hopefully he'll post them soon.

-Mark

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