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=== What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? === | === What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? === | ||
Distribute the workload among the remaining mentors. The mailing list is active enough and questions almost never go unanswered. Reassign the student to a backup mentor. In the worst case, the project admin can become a mentor for the student until another mentor is found. | Distribute the workload among the remaining mentors. The mailing list is | ||
active enough and questions almost never go unanswered. Reassign the student to | |||
a backup mentor. In the worst case, the project admin can become a mentor for | |||
the student until another backup mentor is found. | |||
This situation has been infrequent, and we hope to | This situation has been infrequent, and we hope to prevent it by selecting | ||
mentors with proven involvement in Octave and free software. The vast | |||
majority of our mentors have been involved in Octave development | |||
for several years, and new mentors will be paired with more experienced ones. | |||
=== What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before and during the program? === | === What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before and during the program? === |