[Soc2006] Mentor List/Project Scope?

[Thomas Wouters]

On 5/2/06, Tague Griffith <tague at elementalsecurity.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a list of mentor volunteers or even better what project or
> projects fall under the scope of the PSF this year.  I started reading
> through the applications so far and on some of the applications it's
> hard to tell if some the the proposals that deal with external
> applications or projects should fall under someone else's  SOC
> mentorship or the PSF.


Well, as the list-of-ideas shows, the PSF is open to pretty much anything
(as long as it's mildly Python-related.) IMHO, the only reason to refer to
another SoC organization is because the best mentor(s) for such a project
are busy there. So far, the distinction between the different organizations
is fairly clear.

The Soya3d stuff is a great example, I haven't found anything until Arc
> Riley's email indicating that this was a project that the PSF was
> interested in and had mentors behind.  It would be useful to have a list
> or even a guideline from the PSF, so others of us who might not realize
> a project has a mentor behind it won't suggest the PSF is not the right
> place for it.


I don't pretend to speak for the PSF (at least, not anymore :) but I don't
think the PSF should reject any Python-related project off-hand. Soya3D is
listed on the ideas page ( http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode ). This
suggests (to me, at least) that one or more of the applied mentors can
mentor it (or at least that someone thought there'd be a mentor for it.)
Whether those mentors got accepted, I don't know, but I doubt we rejected
very many ;-)

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