[Soc-coordination] Mentor Summit

Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com
Sat Sep 6 22:03:03 UTC 2008


On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:01:36PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
>On 6 September 2008 at 21:22, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>| Google are again going to be running a post-SoC mentors summit at
>| their HQ in Mountain View, California. This year, it'll be 2 days:
>| October 25th and 26th (Sat/Sun). Along with many other orgs, we've
>| been invited to send up to 2 mentors this year. The details:
>| 
>|  * Google will pay for accommodation for 2 nights
>| 
>|  * They're happy to pay for flights: up to USD 700 for US folks and up
>|    to USD 1500 for non-US folks. Unless there are major reasons
>|    otherwise, they'd rather not pay for 2 non-US mentors from any one
>|    org.
>| 
>| See [1] for some more details; there'll doubtless be a lot more
>| discussion about the summit shortly.
>| 
>| So... We have 11 mentors from this year's SoC, and a few admins. Who'd
>| like to go?
>
>Word on the GSoC list was that they'd prefer one US and one non-US based
>mentor to keep costs under control.  

Yes, exactly.

>So I could go from Chicago.  But given that I mentor'ed twice (from Debian
>and from the R Foundation) there may be some latitude (yet I haven't heard
>from the R Foundation as to whether it has been invited, though I think we
>went four-for-four there; CC'ing R's list on this just in case).

Yup, R have been invited too.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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