Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

[Nicola Pero]

> I think GSoC is probably a good idea, and I guess I could mentor for  
> it, but I doubt that I'd be very good at mentoring.  People have  
> talked about having to chase students and try to get them to do the  
> work, and I'm just never able to do that sort of thing effectively.
>
> The potential benefits if we get a good student able to devote real  
> time to a particularly hard problem have got to make doing this  
> worthwhile though.

I agree.  If we have mentors (and it seems we do), we should  
definitely try to take part in GSoC. :-)

Selecting good students (that don't require constant chasing) is key,  
but it is not easy.

Thanks