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| === Is there anything else we should know or you'd like to tell us that doesn't fit anywhere else on the application? === | | === Is there anything else we should know or you'd like to tell us that doesn't fit anywhere else on the application? === |
| == Answers and Questions from the previous year == | | == Answers and Questions from the previous year == |
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| === What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? ===
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| For the mentors, the risk is relatively low; our past experiences absolutely verify this claim. In order to be even more efficient this year, three of our mentors are project leaders, core team members or project administrators and are reachable virtually 24/7 (in case of emergencies).
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| ;We all have exchanged sufficient contact information (including cell phone numbers etc.) to be able to discover our whereabouts. Should something really bad happen which precludes a mentor from fulfilling his duties (including personal reasons), we will attempt to shift students to new mentors among the existing mentors, or drawn from our backup pool of mentors. This will depend on the number of students we have to mentor.
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| ;We also defined for the last three years a co-mentoring system so the students have a primary and a secondary mentor, which comfort us in the idea that, in any case, the students will not be left hanging for any reason at all, no matter what happens.
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| ;<span style="color:red">On top of that, we have a specific #scummvm-gsoc channel on IRC where mentors (and only them) are connected all the time. We use this channel to keep ourselves informed constantly of the situation of each task, each student and eventually each mentor. A mentor wouldn't disappear without being noticed very quickly by this mean too.</span>
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| === What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before and during the program? === | | === What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before and during the program? === |