Great to have you @rishabh997 join GSoC’23 mentorship team and looking forward to working with you.
Last year @salahoamro did a great work when he discussed android client project with the community and then went a head to work on the project during the program. You may consider taking a look at the activities that transpired around the project so you get a better view of the project. As a mentor we encourage to define the project goals and objectives so the project can be guided appropriately.
i’d like to mentor Shubham…
I’ll connect with him tomorrow to catch up about android client and his goals he’d like to achieve in GSoC…
I would like to put a comment here: As a community we do not encourage mentors during the contributor application period to show up which contributor they’re willing to mentor because many potential contributors who have keen interest in the same project will likely drop off and GSoC does not acknowledge this kind of practice.
We encourage mentors to give necessary support and guidance(via public forums) to all potential contributors during the application period and when the period ends(this time will be on April 4), then the project mentors scrutinize all the applications and rank the strongest proposals for their respective projects which we send to GSoC. We aim at engaging motivated GSoCers with the right skill base and who have keen interest in becoming a part of our community for the long term engagement.
As a mentoring organisation we are obliged to work under Google Summer of Code Program Rules and since last year when the program was opened up to non college students GSoC added in more eligibility criteria and we encourage all our mentors to review these new rules so they get guidance as we go through the program. Among other rules we encourage all the community mentors to be acquainted with GSoC contributors eligibility so they select the right candidates during the contributor selection period.
/cc: @jayasanka @jennifer