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Google Summer of Code Veteran Mentors

Thursday, April 18, 2013

As we near the start of the student application period on April 22nd for Google Summer of Code 2013, we wanted to give a shout out to the other superstars (besides the students) essential to the success of the program, the mentors and organization administrators (org admins). We recently sent a survey to the Google Summer of Code Mentors group list and discovered that the program has come full circle for many of the mentors who once started out as students and had so much fun that they felt the desire to mentor new students themselves.

Of the 132 mentors that filled out the survey, 23 have been a part of the program for four or more years out of the last eight years of the Google Summer of Code program. Below is a list of the mentors and organization administrators* with the organizations they worked with and the years in each role. In many cases they both acted as an organization administrator and a mentor during the summer program.

Thank you for all of your dedication and the guidance you provide the students!

Name
Organization
Years Participated as a Student
Years Participated as a Mentor
Years Participated as an Org Administrator
Luca Barbato
Gentoo, Libav and Audacious
----
2006-2012
2007
Reimar Bauer
MoinMoin Wiki
----
2007-2012
2010-2012
Olly Betts
SWIG and Xapian Search Engine Library
----
2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
2009, 2011, 2012
Bastian Blank
MoinMoin and Debian
2008
2009-2012
2011
Marc Delisle
PhpMyAdmin
----
2008-2012
2010-2012
Philipp Kewisch
Mozilla
----
2009-2012
----
Luis Gustavo Lira
E-cidadania
----
2008-2012
----
Hin-Tak Leung
The Linux Foundation
----
2008, 2010-2012
----
Scott McCreary
Haiku
----
2009-2012
----
Aaron Meurer
SymPy
2009, 2010
2011, 2012
2011, 2012
Tom Musgrove
Blender Foundation
----
2010-2012
2008-2012
Erik Ogenvik
Worldforge
----
2008-2012
2009-2012
Josef Perktold
Python Software Foundation
----
2009-2012
----
Lydia Pintscher
KDE
----
2008
2007-2012
Alberto Ruiz
GNOME
----
2009-2012
----
Kevin Smith
XSF
2006
2007-2009, 2011-2012
2009, 2011, 2012
Harlan Stenn
NTP Project, FreeBSD, Google OSPO, GNU
----
2008-2012
2009-2012
Ian Taylor
GCC
----
2006, 2007, 2010, 2011
2006-2010
David Trowbridge
Review Board
----
2007, 2009-2012
2009-2012
Francis Tyers
Apertium
----
2009-2012
2009-2012
Thomas Waldmann
MoinMoin Wiki
----
2006-2009, 2011, 2012
2006-2012
Frank Warmerdam
OSGeo
----
2006-2010, 2012
2006
Marina Zhurakhinskaya
GNOME
----
2009-2011
2012


Organizations are currently busy talking with prospective students about their ideas for projects over the summer. For more information about the Google Summer of Code, visit the program site and check out this year’s important dates

 *This is not a comprehensive list of all mentors and organization administrators who have participated 4 or more times in the program, only a list of those who filled out our survey. 

 By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
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