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=== What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? === | === What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? === | ||
For the mentors, the risk is relatively low; our past experiences absolutely | For the mentors, the risk is relatively low; our past experiences absolutely support this claim. In order to be even more efficient this year, <span style="color:red">five</span> of our mentors are project leaders, core team members or project administrators for ScummVM and/or ResidualVM and are reachable virtually 24/7 (in case of emergencies). | ||
;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. | ;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 four 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. | ;We also defined for the last four 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. | ||
;On top of that, we have a specific #scummvm-gsoc channel on IRC where mentors (and only them) and org admins are connected all | ;On top of that, we have a specific #scummvm-gsoc channel on IRC where mentors (and only them) and org admins 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. | ||
=== 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? === | ||