Student Programs Administration

Student Programs administrators run the mentoring programs for KDE, sometimes in partnership with other groups such as Google Open Source and companies who wish to sponsor interns through KDE rather than directly. We work as a group, collaboratively, supporting those who take the lead for a particular program. New admins are always welcome.

For the following programs, we've tried to list the tasks necessary. This will be a work in progress as we develop best practices.

Google Summer of Code

During the fall and winter, prepare curious students and prospective mentors for the beginning of GSoC
Ensure that https://community.kde.org/GSoC is all up-to-date. Discuss changes on the KDE-Soc-Mentors list
Start a new Ideas page, and begin contacting teams to get them to list and refine their ideas
Continue to urge students to read the documentation and get in contact with a team who can help them make their first commits/bug fixes
Decide who will write the Org application, and get it finished before the deadline
Prepare the spreadsheet for listing the student applications, and get the teams to rank them
Ensure that all mentors are subscribed to KDE-Soc-Mentor and invited to the webapp
Once all the teams have ranked their students, decide how many slots to ask for in consultation with the rest of the admins
Once slots are assigned, ensure that all students are subscribed to KDE-Soc mail list, and welcome the students
Create the student report page, and get them using it from day one
Continue to stay in touch with the students and mentors during bonding and coding via IRC/Telegram/MLs
Ensure that mentors meet evaluation deadlines no matter what it takes. Support mentors to fail students when that is necessary
Help decide which mentors will attend the Mentor Summit
Create a Dot story reporting on what was accomplished during GSoC