GSOC Weekly IRC Meetings

[Gedare Bloom]

This is a reminder that our first weekly IRC meeting will be held in
about an hour.

I'm unlikely to send future reminders.

Gedare

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
> The coding period officially opens on Monday, and we'll plan to hold
> the first weekly IRC meeting for GSoC Students next Wednesday, May 16
> at 10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), which is UTC-4. During these
> meetings, we don't have time to get into deep technical discussions,
> which you should be having with your mentor / the development
> community. Mentors and others from the community are welcome to come,
> but this time is meant as a tag-up to make sure the students as a
> whole are progressing.
>
> Each meeting follows the same basic format:
> 1. Announcements by organizer (usually me or Joel)
> 2. Student Updates: What you did, what you plan to do, difficulties
> you encounter, and brief Q&A with organizer/mentors.
> 3. Wrap-up
>
> Typically each student should take about 5 minutes, and the entire
> meeting should about 30-45 minutes. The meeting organizer will call on
> each student to go in turn. If you have a need to go early in the
> meeting, you should communicate that to the organizer. You are however
> expected to attend every meeting in its entirety as part of your
> participation in the GSoC program. Repeatedly missing meetings,
> leaving early, or not paying attention will reflect poorly on your
> participation. Special circumstances do arise, and you should discuss
> those with the org admins (me, Joel, Chris) and your mentors.
>
> It can help if you prepare your update ahead of time so you can
> copy-paste in IRC when it is your turn. You will also report your
> status update on the Student Tracking Page [1]. We use this as a
> history of the meetings.
>
> [1] https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/GSoC/2018#StudentStatusUpdates
>
> Gedare