Tomorrow, I fly to Prague to start talking with Sun Engineering
staff about the SEED mentoring program. I talked with Tanya Jankot
this morning. She has already given a presentation to the Engineering
staff in Dublin and she thinks the visit is going well.
We have had
a much lower initial response from Dublin, Grenoble, Hamburg, and Prague
than we had from Bangalore and Beijing. However, these are smaller groups
and they probably want to talk with us in person before submitting their
application materials. Tanya and I have been in good communication with
the site leaders and SEEDs (from both the current and prior terms) so we
are still hopeful.
I will be working out of the Prague and then Hamburg Sun offices, back
in Menlo Park, California on 12 November. The SEED term application
deadline is 14 November. (We pushed it out a bit later to accomodate
a holiday in France.) We will announce the participant selections on
22 November and then we start the matching process. The actual term will
run January-June 2006.
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