I am surprised at how many mentor matches I have been able
to make in this week just before Sun’s winter break. So
far, we have 35 or 71% matched out of the 49 participants.
Our mentors matched so far include 17 Distinguished Engineers
and Directors plus 9 Vice Presidents.
I think many of the remaining mentees are going to end
up waiting until the first week of 2007 because
potential mentors will be out of the office and not responding
to my reminders. However, I
was pleasantly surprised today when a potential mentor whose vacation
email had just popped back saying he was out until 8 January sent me
email and asked for more information on the participant. He said he
would let me know his decision by Friday, 22 December. The SEED
mentoring term officially starts on 15 January so I have some matching
time after the winter break.
KatysBlog 
What would it take for Sun to create an open source mentor matching application?
Hi James
There are already a number of publications about how the SEED Engineering mentoring program and process works. Check out:
“SEED: Sun engineering enrichment & development” Research Disclosure Database Number 482013, defensive publication in Research Disclosure, Published in June 2004, Electronic Publication Date : 17 May 2004
Bit by Bit: Catalyst’s Guide to Advancing Women in High Tech Companies, SEED is the featured case study in the “Use Mentoring and Networks to Win” section (page 106), book published by Catalyst, 2003, ISBN 0-89584-243-2
Hope this helps — Katy