Obviously, a mentor comes with ideas of projects and proposals for this Summer. Thanks for organizing this.

When good proposals come in (as they are in my case),where and when do we post them for the Boost list? As mentioned, I'm in as a mentor for at least 1,possibly 2 Boost.Multiprecision projects (I'm 3-timeprevious mentor from years gone past). Anyway... Sorry if this is off-topic. Kind regards, Chris On Sunday, March 22, 2020, 11:02:29 AM GMT+1, Cem Bassoy via Boost wrote: I am in too. Hope this is not too late! Am So., 23. Feb. 2020 um 00:31 Uhr schrieb Damian Vicino via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org>:

I'm in

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 18:23 David Bellot via Boost wrote:

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Hi Boost community,

we are recruiting the mentors for the Google Summer of Code 2020. If you wish to be a mentor, please contact me directly and I'll send you an invite.

We need at least 10 mentors this year. Obviously, a mentor comes with ideas of projects and proposals for this Summer.

Best regards, David

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I am in too!

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:37 AM Robert Ramey via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

Hmmmm - mentors get paid? This is the first time I heard of this. I did it a couple of years ago and didn't get paid.

Google pays 500USD per project[1]. They can do whatever they want with it either keep it for the org or give it to mentor. I think admin decides what to do with money. [1]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq#do_organizations_receive_... Thank you, Pranam Lashkari

Hi Robert, El lun., 23 mar. 2020 a las 15:07, Robert Ramey via Boost (< boost@lists.boost.org>) escribió:

On 2/22/20 3:22 PM, David Bellot via Boost wrote:

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Hi Boost community,

we are recruiting the mentors for the Google Summer of Code 2020. If you wish to be a mentor, please contact me directly and I'll send you an invite.

We need at least 10 mentors this year. Obviously, a mentor comes with ideas of projects and proposals for this Summer.

Best regards, David

Hmmmm - mentors get paid? This is the first time I heard of this. I did it a couple of years ago and didn't get paid. I did get invited to an "unconference" at google. It was kind of interesting to see the google campus. And I was very impressed with the quality of free food available seemingly on demand. I couldn't help but wonder if google employees are overweight.

I think the original mail subject was misleading, and I also understand (as English as a second language speaker, how it could get wrong). The email intention was calling for volunteers to mentor, there is hire involved, not even a salary. Last few years there was some money involved, but it was never offered upfront, it was decided after the GSOC was done.GSOC gives some money to the org for each successful student and Boost decided to first pay for the 2 member that do the trip to the summit and distribute the excess between the other mentors to cover any expenses incurred. It was even distributed in different ways in different years, I remember at least once was distributed equally per mentor, another year was distributed equally per project mentored (the difference is in those whose co-mentor or mentor more than 1 project). I wouldn't call it getting paid, more like an expense report with no need to present the tickets.

Also - I was under the impression that ideas for projects and proposals came not from mentors but from applicants and that this was the basis for accepting/rejecting proposals.

Proposals still come from students, but each potential mentor posts some examples of proposals so students got a starting point to work on. I never saw someone posting a copy/paste proposal from what's on the example, but if it ever happens, it will never passes. This was always that way. The reason is that Google asks for example proposal to be posted publicly before accepting the Org each year.

Just curious about this.

Robert Ramey

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