We are in the mentor matching cycle for the 52 PreSEED participants.
I sent out the first mentor request emails on 5 May and I have 23
match confirmations so far this morning (44% done in the first 8 days).
Last week was the 2nd
OpenSolaris Developer Summit on the University of California at Santa
Cruz campus, plus the
CommunityOne event and
JavaOne at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, so many potential mentors
were too busy to reply. However, there has been a good response since then.
When the SEED program first started in 2001, it was limited to Sun Engineering
staff working in the USA. Since then, the scope of the mentoring program has
broadened. The current group of PreSEED mentors includes senior staff from: Bangalore, India; Dublin, Ireland; Grenoble, France; and Prague, Czech Republic;
as well as those based in the USA.
More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program is
available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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