What is a mentoring organization?
• What is the role of a mentoring organization? Each mentoring organization is expected to provide: • A pool of project ideas for students to choose from, publicly published by the mentoring organization as an “Ideas” list • An organization administrator to act as the project’s main point of contact for Google • A person or group responsible for review and ranking of student applications, both those proposals which tie into the org’s “Ideas” list and “blue-sky” proposals • A person or group of people responsible for monitoring the progress of each accepted student and to mentor her/him as the project progresses • A person or group responsible for taking over for a student’s assigned mentor in the event they are unable to continue mentoring, e.g. take a vacation, have a family emergency • A written evaluation of each student participant, including how s/he worked with the group, whether s/he should be invited back should we do another Google Summer of Code, etc. • What is the role of an
A mentoring organization is a small to medium sized nonprofit that is willing to mentor you throughout the certificate. This is not an internship, as the work you complete is on the course’s schedule and not the organization’s. The mentor-mentee relationship gives students the ability to get involved in service learning as well as be actively engaged in the subject matter.
A group running an active free/open source software project, e.g. the Python Software Foundation. The project does not need to be a legally incorporated entity. If you’re looking for a broader picture, you can find a list of all mentoring organizations who have participated in the past on the GSoC 2005, 2006 and 2007 pages. Mentoring organizations must produce and release software under an Open Source Initiative approved license in order to participate in the program.
