Please reach out on Forum or Discord to get account approved. Manual approval required for all accounts due to hundreds of new account users daily from spambots.
Please start by registering your ideas for student projects below by following the template provided with the existing ideas. Furthermore, scroll down to the bottom and give everyone a bit of information about your expertise and availability by adding yourself to the table. Jason will make final approvals for mentor assignments based on if we first get accepted as a mentoring organization and best matching mentor skill sets with student project ideas deemed valuable to the community.
.. youtube:: 3J_eBuYxcyg
:width: 100%
:align: center
You will also need be invited by an administrator to register on the GSoC site and request to be a mentor for BeagleBoard.org 8.
.. important::
\ No newline at end of file
As a mentor you have to guide students/contributors through the entire process of GSoC, from learning
about `BeagleBoard.org <https://www.beagleboard.org/>`_ community, to helping GSoC Contributors
become familiar with the code base and testing practices, to finally releasing their code on
`OpenBeagle <https://openbeagle.org/>`_ for the world to use!
You will also need be invited by an administrator to register on the GSoC site and request
to be a mentor for `BeagleBoard.org <https://www.beagleboard.org/>`_.
`Mentors <https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/>`_ are people from the community who volunteer to work
with a GSoC contributor. Mentors provide guidance such as pointers to useful documentation, code reviews, etc.
In addition to providing GSoC contributors with feedback and pointers, a mentor acts as an ambassador to help
GSoC contributors integrate into their project’s community. `BeagleBoard.org <https://www.beagleboard.org/>`_
assign more than one mentor to each of their GSoC contributors. Many members of `BeagleBoard.org <https://www.
beagleboard.org/>`_ community also provide guidance to GSoC contributors without mentoring in an “official”
capacity, as much as they would answer anyone’s questions on `Discord <http://bbb.io/gsocchat>`_ and
`Forum <https://forum.beagleboard.org/c/gsoc>`_.
.. note::
Official mentors can use :ref:`gsoc-project-ideas` page as template for providing their own project ideas.
Remember these are supposed to be for software projects that service the Beagle and general open source
embedded systems community, not theses, how-to guides or what I did over my summer vacation ideas.
Prospective mentors, sudents will use `Discord <http://bbb.io/gsocchat>`_ and `Forum <https://forum.beagleboard.org/c/gsoc>`_
to make contact with you, so be sure to provide up-to-date information. Please feel free to add yourself on mentors page and we will monitor
and police that list. Acceptance as an official mentor with the ability to rate proposals and grade students will come via the Google system.
We will only approve official mentors who have a prove track record with Beagle, but welcome all community members to provide guidance to both
mentors and students to best service the community as a whole. Don’t be shy and don’t be offended when we edit. We are thrilled to have you on-board!
.. tip::
Chekcout `official GSoC mentor guide <https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/>`_ from Google.
