[Bf-committers] GSoC edition 16! Call for mentors

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi everyone,

Google accepted Blender Foundation as a mentoring org, we can select 
students for a 10 week part-time programming job this summer.

This part time aspect of the student projects is still of concern. It 
probably more than ever depends on the background and experience a 
student brings in. Only accepting top quality well defined proposals is 
a guideline we should use more than ever.

Accepting students for easy projects (low hanging fruit, feature 
requests) is not a good idea. I rather improve on onboarding for new 
contributors to Blender in general,  accessible for everyone. That's 
already more than difficult enough - especially because we demand high 
quality of contributions.

The purpose of GSoC is to introduce open source communities to students. 
Blender has a plenty of specialist areas where we need to find top 
talent to contribute to. Attracting these students for a GSoC project, 
and keeping them on board, is the best result we can strive for.

Each year we need mentors to help students. Google encourages a large 
mentor team, it's possible to have multiple mentors per student.

Acceptable mentors are Blender developers who contributed code in the 
past, and who are capable of reviewing commits for students in the areas 
they work on.

Applying for mentorship can done by emailing me (in person) or asking 
one of the bf-admins (Sergey, Brecht, Campbell, Bastien, Dalai).

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Chairman Blender Foundation, CEO Blender Institute / Studio
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