Below are the questions which need to be answered for the Mentoring Organization Application.

The application is due between 3 March and 12 March.  Have at it!

[Matthew Burke]



        * '''Describe your organization.'''

        * '''Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating?'''

        * '''Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.'''

        No.

        * '''If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?'''

        N/A.

        * '''Who will your organization administrator be? Please include Google Account information.'''

        [Matthew Burke]

        * '''What license(s) does your project use?'''
        BSD

        * '''What is the URL for your ideas page?'''

        http://wiki.tcl.tk/20832

        * '''What is the main development mailing list or forum for your organization?'''
        

        * '''What is the main IRC channel for your organization?'''
       
        tkchat client.  Main site is #tcl on freenode.  This is gated to/from other channels -CF is checking, but someone who knows is welcome to correct this.


        * '''Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now.'''

        * '''Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please include Google Account information.'''

 
        * '''Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account information.'''

        * '''What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.''
        Known to be knowledgable.  Known by other mentors.

        * '''What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?'''

        Make them an offer they can't refuse?

        Can we request that a professor at their institution be an adjunct Mentor of some sort?

        * '''What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?'''

        Provide a backup Mentor with the application.  The Tcl community has a pool of folks with suitable teaching, CS and
Tcl internals knowledge to be tapped if both Mentor and Backup fail.

        * '''What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?'''

       The T cl community is quite open, friendly, and easy to get along with.   The ability to code in Tcl provides a leg up in several
non-programming careers like chip design, telecommunications, engineering, etc.  We will offer a presentation slot at the annual
conference to successful projects, and an opportunity to recieve a second award for "Best Student Paper" at the conference.

        * '''What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?'''
        Successful projects are very likely to be included in commercial offerings from various vendors who keep Tcl/Tk
under the hood.  Successful students will be offered a publication credit for writing up their work for the annual Tcl/Tk
conference.  



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