Last minute GSoC proposal with Roks - anyone interested in mentoring?

[Valorie Zimmerman]

I need comments on this proposal in the app, so I know where we are. Is
anyone besides Tomaz willing to mentor this student? One mentor with two
students is burnout country, and we can't send anyone there!

Valorie

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 1:50 AM Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org> wrote:

> I signed as a mentor for analitza so I’m not sure I can mentor two. But if
> anyone can tag as “mentor”, I can be the actual mentor.
>
> Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 10:13, Valorie Zimmerman <
> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> Cool. Now I need mentors to step up, or suggestions for whom to ask. If
>> you are interested and are all signed up as a mentor, you know what to do.
>>
>> If not, write to KDE-Soc-Management at kde.org and tell us your
>> google-connected email address so you can be invited to the GSoC webapp,
>> and subscribe to the KDE-Soc-Management ML:
>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc-mentor
>>
>> Valorie
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 1:01 AM Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds reasonable. The fact that he’s in masters also counts as he can
>>> do what he is talking about.
>>>
>>>
>>> Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 09:37, Valorie Zimmerman <
>>> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>
>>>> Thank you, Tomaz. <3
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:34 AM Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Let me look, give me 30 minutes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 09:30, Valorie Zimmerman <
>>>>> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:25 AM Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He contacted me and participated in a qt course I presented at his
>>>>>>> university. Inward unsure if he was going to apply.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK, good to hear that there was some contact. I need some ideas about
>>>>>> who can look at this proposal and see if there is any chance of success.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Valorie
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Em qua, 10 de abr de 2019 às 04:24, Valorie Zimmerman <
>>>>>>> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm unsure if this applicant contacted the KDE Edu team in advance,
>>>>>>>> but I heard nothing from them until seeing this proposal this morning.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The short description of the proposal:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "As a student, I use graphs in almost everything related to my
>>>>>>>> master’s research. Graph Theory is a great mathematical tool for
>>>>>>>> programmers and mathematicians, as it facilitates some computational
>>>>>>>> problems resolution and modelling. However, is not always easy to
>>>>>>>> understand the underlying theory and algorithms.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Rocs (https://kde.org/applications/education/rocs) is a Graph
>>>>>>>> Theory IDE created in January of 2010, with new updates still being
>>>>>>>> committed almost every month, currently in the KDE repositories, designed
>>>>>>>> for lecturers, students and researchers. It is composed of a visual data
>>>>>>>> structure and a powerful scripting engine in Javascript. Though useful for
>>>>>>>> creating simple graphs, it is still lacking the tools to simplify the
>>>>>>>> creation of bigger graphs, and also of basic graph theory algorithms for
>>>>>>>> beginners. Another improvement it should have is a step by step execution
>>>>>>>> system, in order to fully comprehend the algorithms and facilitate
>>>>>>>> debugging."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you are interested in mentoring but have not yet been invited to
>>>>>>>> the app, please write KDE-Soc-Management at kde.org and tell us what
>>>>>>>> google-connected email address you want us in use. Also, subscribe to
>>>>>>>> KDE-Soc-Mentor mail list:
>>>>>>>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc-mentor
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you're already a mentor, you can mark "I want to mentor" on the
>>>>>>>> proposal page. I believe that we can still comment on the draft and the
>>>>>>>> student can read it, although we are not allowed to consider the draft in
>>>>>>>> our consideration of which students to accept.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Valorie
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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