FYI for GSoC mentors. It's a ways away, but have the date in mind if you'd like to attend. Remember we have two slots, so if there are more than 2 people, we'll give preference to people that haven't gone before.
-Austin
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carol Smith carols@google.com Date: Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:23 AM Subject: [GSoC Mentors Announce] GSoC 2013: Mentor Summit Travel and Details To: gsoc-mentors-announce gsoc-mentors-announce@googlegroups.com
Hi everyone,
The Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit is approaching!
When: 19-20 October, 2013 Where: Google Headquarters, Mountain View, California
Some brief background: The Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit is a two-day "unconference" [0] that brings together two mentors (or org admins) from each of the mentoring organizations that has participated in GSoC that year. Google pays for a two-night hotel stay, transportation costs, conference facilities, and food for the weekend, and the attendees make the agenda. We've consistently heard from mentors over the years that the summit was one of the best conferences of the year for them. The opportunity to meet face-to-face with other FOSS community members is a valuable experience, as is the time spent discussing ideas in a casual forum where everyone's voice can be heard. I'd encourage your organization to send delegates to the summit even if you don't quite understand of the utility of it now - I feel confident you won't be disappointed with the results.
Attendees stay at the Wild Palms hotel [1] while they're in town and we serve a traditional dinner of thai food on Friday night and have a pool party on Saturday night.
Here's how to proceed with booking and attending:
1) Your organization will need to decide on two delegates [2] to send to the event. Any people who want to attend above and beyond the two from your org will need to list themselves on the Waiting List [3] and wait for word from me about extra space as we get closer to the event. NB: The wiki requires a login when visiting for the first time. The username is "mentor" and the password is "yourock." I highly recommend creating your own account with a unique password once you have logged in for the first time.
2) Once your organization has decided on the two delegates it would like to send to this year's event, those individuals can feel free to book their hotel rooms at the Wild Palms [4] now. Please note that if the Wild Palms fills up you will need to make your reservation with the Domain Hotel instead [5]. If you really want to stay at the Wild Palms, make sure to book early! We'll have shuttles running between the hotels and to campus for the whole weekend. NB: The hotel registration deadline is 6 September. If you really want to stay at the Wild Palms, I'd recommend you book early. :-)
3) Please fill out the Mentor Summit Preparation form [6] as soon as you have confirmed your hotel room.
4) We include the reimbursement for travel to the mentor summit and the mentor stipends in one PO to your organization. Please see the payment info page [7] for more detail on this. These POs will be issued to your org soon after it has made the payment request.
5) Flights should be purchased once you have a confirmed PO. All orgs pay for plane tickets ahead of time and then request reimbursement via invoice against the PO once you have receipts for the flights.
6) Please check out the wiki [8] and fill in your name if you're attending. Look around the rest of the site - it has lots of useful information for you about the event and what to expect.
7) In the unlikely event that your organization does not plan to attend the mentor summit at all, please fill out this form [9] to let me know. Please only fill this out if you are not sending *any* delegates to the summit.
8) We are doing session scheduling for this year's summit via Google Moderator. Please fill in your ideas for sessions on the webpage [10] by 27 September and vote for your favorite ideas! You can read more about how we're running session scheduling this year on the wiki [11].
9) Please remember that any organization that misses two or more evaluation deadlines may not attend the summit. If you book travel and then get uninvited from the summit after the either the midterm or the final evaluations you will not be reimbursed for travel costs and your hotel stays will be cancelled. So don't miss those evaluations or you jeopardize missing the event!
[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
[1] - http://www.jdvhotels.com/hotels/siliconvalley/wild_palms
[2] - A "delegate" is defined as either a mentor or org admin who participated in this year's GSoC program. We're sorry, but we can't accomodate other people from your organization who did not mentor or administer this year. Also, we will not accept any mentors who miss an evaluation deadline in this year's program. Please contact me if you have questions about if a person from your organization is on this list.
[3] - https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/1bfuIJ_U76rznjfqBYdRKfFlfmvhqrm...
[4] - https://www.jdvhotels.com/book/reservations/wld?start_date=2013-10-14&en...
[5] - https://www.jdvhotels.com/book/reservations/dom?start_date=2013-10-18&en...
[6] - http://goo.gl/oyM2y
[7] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc201...
[8] - https://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/2013
[9] - http://goo.gl/OTxuo
[10] - http://goo.gl/EH0ZH
[11] - https://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/Proposed_Session_Topics_2013
As always, please contact me directly with any questions or concerns you may have about any of these instructions.
Cheers, Carol
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Am 2013-06-13 20:52, schrieb Austin English:
FYI for GSoC mentors. It's a ways away, but have the date in mind if you'd like to attend. Remember we have two slots, so if there are more than 2 people, we'll give preference to people that haven't gone before.
For those who haven't been there before: It's a bit like FOSDEM, except that it's a bit smaller and in sunny California instead of rainy Brussels. If you can make the time, I highly recommend to go there :-)
(I'd love to go myself, except that I'm not actively mentoring this year ^^ .)
Cheers, Stefan
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