GSoC Mid-term Evaluation Questions

Questions

Category: Mentor Relations

Question 1: At what point did you first make contact with your mentoring organization?
A. Before the program was announced for this year (end of February 2008).
- I've been an avid perl programmer for a while, and have actually been involved with The Perl Foundation since before I applied for GSoC

Question 2: At what point did you first make contact with your mentor?
A. Before the program was announced for this year (end of February 2008).
- I've lurked in #catalyst for a while, and Kieren and I talked a number of times.  He actually was one of the people that encouraged me to apply for GSoC

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Question 3: How often do you and your mentor interact?

B. Once every few days.

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Question 4: How do you communicate with your mentor?  Please check all that apply.

B. IRC/Instant Messaging
E. Project wide mailing lists such as the main developers list


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Question 5: Of the different communication methods you use with your mentor, which do you use most frequently?

B. IRC/Instant Messaging

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Question 6: Which of the following means do you use to send status updates to your mentor?

C. I post their my updates to their individual blog.

F. I send my status updates to project wide mailing list such as our main developers mailing list.

H. I have a regular 1/1 IRC/other online status meeting with my mentor.
I. My mentor holds regular "office hours" online and I drop in when I have questions.

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Question 7: How often do you make status updates?

C. 2 - 3 times per week

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Question 8: How would you rate the amount and quality of interaction with your mentor?
A. I would prefer more interaction with my mentor, but the quality of our interaction is high.


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Question 9: How would you describe your interaction with your overall project community?
A. Very active (e.g. I send code reviews to development mailing lists, am active and ask/answer questions in our IRC channel or project forums)


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Question 10: If you cannot reach your mentor, how do you go about getting help when you need it?  Please check all that apply.
A. I ask my co-mentor or my assigned backup mentor.
B. I ask my organization administrator.
C. I ask questions on our project's developer or other main mailing list..
E. I ask questions in IRC or on the project forums.
F. I hope I can figure it out myself before my mentor resurfaces.

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Question 11: If your mentor goes on vacation or life otherwise happens, what is your organization's plan for helping you?
A. I have a co-mentor/backup mentor to work with.
B. My organization administrator will step in as my mentor.
C. I don't know what the plan is, but I can always reach my organization administrator if something comes up.
D. I don't know what the plan is and I wouldn't know whom to ask.


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Category: Your Project
Question 1: Do you feel that you are on track to complete your project?

C. I am on schedule.

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Question 2: If you feel that you are behind schedule, have you worked with your mentor to reset milestones or otherwise alter project goals?
A. Not applicable, I am on track.

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Question 3: How would you describe the quality of your work thus far?
D. Does not meet my personal expecations and I am working on improving

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Question 4: How would you describe the effort you have put in thus far?
A. Meets my personal expectations

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Question 5: How responsive was your mentor to any questions or other requests for communication from you?
A. Mentor responded quickly with the information I requested.

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Question 6: Would you want to work with this mentor again?
A. Yes


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Question 7: Would you want to work with this mentor on a daily basis, e.g. sitting next to you in an office?
A. Yes


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Category: Program Questions

Question 1: We made several changes to the program timings last year, including announcing the program earlier in the year and adding the community bonding phase to the timeline.  Do you feel the schedule changes have been helpful?
A. Both announcing the program earlier and adding the community bonding period have been helpful.

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- I was happy to see I had some good time to get prepared.  I procrastinate usually, so it really helped me to be made aware well in advance.

Question 2: What areas were the most difficult for you in preparing for/working on Summer of Code?  Please select all that apply.
A. Writing your application
C. Choosing the best idea to apply for
E. Getting up to speed with my organization's code base
H. Keeping myself motivated during school overlaps with the program timeline

M. Time zone differences

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- Perl is an amazing organization, I just wish we could all be in the same time zone :-)

Question 3: What advice would you give to future would-be Summer of Code mentoring organizations? (REQUIRED)

- Be organized and ready to go.  Know what you want done, and have more people involved than just the designated mentors.  Information should be wealthy and readily available for the student.

Question 4: What advice would you give to future would-be Summer of Code students who - would like to work with your organization? (REQUIRED)

- Be ready to work hard, and have fun.  Ask a lot of questions, and make sure you understand what you're doing.  GET A HIVEMINDER (or equivelant) ACCOUNT.  You *need* a todo list.  It will save you.

Category: Overall Sanity Check
Question 1: Do you feel that Summer of Code is going well enough for you?
A. Yes

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Google Summer of Code is an excellent and wonderful thing.  I'm so happy I've been chosen and have been able to embark on this adventure.