GSoC/2010Mentors

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GSoC 2010 Mentors

Mentors have an extremely important role in GSoC, teaching students how to contribute and guiding them before, during and after the project development - until the student becomes a member him/herself.

Mentors

  • Paulo Henrique Junqueira Amorim (paulojamorim)
  • Tatiana Al-Chueyr (tatiana.alchueyr)
  • Thiago Franco de Moraes (totonixsame)

How to become a mentor

In order to become a mentor, you must have made some contributions for the open source community in general, and have expertise on the technologies involved in the project proposal.

To become a mentor you only need to show your interest in participating in GSoC, send a mail to invesalius at cti dot gov dot br, including:

  • your name,
  • your areas of expertise,
  • experience,
  • how could contribute

If you have some project ideas just add them to the ideas page.

Mentor duties

Mentors are expected to:

  • Spend some time with their students (at leaset 5 hours/week),
  • Respond to the students questions as quickly as possible;
  • Keep students on the project schedule and motivate them when difficulties arise;
  • Know, at any time, the current status of the projects of their assigned students.

Mentor Benefits

  • Chance to help the InVesalius Community and Software
  • Get some student labor in your "pet" projects;
  • Receive some goodies (t-shirt);

Mentor resources