[Soc-coordination] Mentor this year, student the next

[Obey Arthur Liu]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Ana Guerrero <ana at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:02:48AM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Le mercredi 02 mars 2011 à 16:28 -0500, Luke Faraone a écrit :
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm a Debian Developer, and for work and other reasons I won't apply as
> > > a student this year. I want to mentor for 2011, but I would like to
> > > possibly enter as a student next year.
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure this is allowed by Google. Is that okay with the GSOC
> > > team at Debian?
> > Since it has been decided that you can be a GSOC student as a DD, I
> > don't think it is going to be a problem for next year.
> >
>
> We were talking this by IRC yesterday. The problem was related to
> next year and *Debian* as mentoring organization not allowing him to be a
> student because he was a mentor this year and this could be taken as him
> having an advantage over other students.
>
> I do not see any problem with this, or any real advantage. But I asked Luke
> to send an email in case somebody else could see a negative point in this,
> (please tell us) and also for having it recorded for the next year.
>
> Ana

I replied once to a similar question. There's no problem here for you
to be both mentor and student, the same year or different years.
The only thing we would require is that you don't participate in the
proposal ranking process if you have a proposal as a student the same
year.

Cheers
Arthur