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→‎What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.: be more specific as possible :-P

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 ===  What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible. ===
-The mentors have volunteered to work with GSoC. They have all been contributors to ScummVM for a long time. They feel comfortable around the ScummVM code and can guide students to perform their tasks. The majority of the mentors have also participated in past ScummVM GSoCs so they know their way around the procedures and have also refined their mentoring style. Some of them are/have been part of the academia, guiding real students. They have seen the student mentalité in-action and have experience helping people along. We are drawing the best available from our pool of developers to mentor GSoC students this year.
+We want our mentors to have the following qualities:
+# Be able to commit to participating for the entire duration of the program. They first and foremost have to be available to their students and the mentor team.
+# Have a considerable track record hacking inside ScummVM. They can help the students more effectively and in an immediate fashion this way.
+# Have the patience and skills to explain to their respective students on how to tackle their tasks. Also, to be able to help the students out in sticky situations.
+# Have a clear vision on how a task should proceed, both in broad strokes as well as in the technical details level. Allowing of course some freedom of movement to the students, where this is applicable.
+For this year, and this holds for our previous participations too, our mentors have volunteered to work with GSoC. This means that they primarily want to be involved in the program and that they are not dragged in to participate. Moreover, they have all been contributors to ScummVM for a long time. They feel comfortable around the ScummVM code and can guide students to perform their tasks. The majority of the mentors have also participated in past ScummVM GSoCs so they know their way around the procedures and have also refined their mentoring style. Some of them are/have been part of the academia, guiding real students. They have seen the student mentalité in-action and have experience helping people along. We are drawing the best available from our pool of developers to mentor GSoC students this year.
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