5 days to go on our 2005-2006 mentoring terms application period.
There have been 32 recent hire applications and 33 established
staff applications for SEED’s 11th and 12th terms. This is our first
term using a single application form for both groups. Tanya Jankot
(SEED’s Applications Engineer) and I hope the new way it is less
confusing for the applicants. Tanya fixed a bug in the date sorting which was
putting some of the new hires into the established staff area so we
think we have a good count now.
The recent hires category has no seniority or service requirements,
only a excellence criteria. The established staff category has
seniority, service, and excellence criteria. We have only gotten one
formal request so far for someone hired in August 2003 to be considered
a recent hire rather than established staff (for which the person did
not have the seniority). We approved the request. Only 6 applicants have
been disqualified so far for being too junior for established staff at
the same time as having been at Sun too long to be considered a recent hire.
It is a pleasure to see at least ten familiar names among the managers
recommending their staff for participation. Several managers have more than
one of their staff among the SEED applicants. One is a Distinguished Engineer
who has served twice as a Mentor and once as a Participant reappearing as a
recommending manager for an applicant. Another is a Mentor in
the Bangalore pilot term which ends this month. In addition, there are 22 SEED
participants now on the Potential Mentors lists and several of them have already
served more than once as mentors. I see these patterns of repeated program contact
in several roles as indications that SEED is supporting its priority to “Build
Sun’s Engineering community by making and strengthening connections between its
members and with the rest of Sun”.
There has been lots of internal Sun email this morning about blogs.
The 13 June San Francisco Chronicle article
“Writing the codes on blogs Companies figure out what’s OK, what’s not in
online realm” apparently started the discussion. It is fun to see people
I know written about. I am particularly pleased to see SEED participants like
Rich Burridge quoted. I enjoy reading Rich’s blog, especially when he mentions
the SEED program:
“Sun Tours” (1 Oct 2004).
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