Google Summer of Code mentor summit
27. October 2008
So after Google was so kind to pay me a flight from europe to the US and back I attended the Summer of Code mentor summit 2008 in Mountain View/CA.
The whole (un)conference was absolutly awesome with cool session interesting talks and tons of great people around. It is really nice to meet open source hackers from so many different projects and cultures. Leslie did a great job to make everybode happy in and outside the conference. (And yes, the Google caféteria is probably one of the best in the world).
Lot’s of people ask me why GNOME only send one mentor and I really think that is a pity. So please, if there will be a SoC in 2009 (which is likely) and you mentor some student then go to the mentor summit and I am sure you will not regret it.
After the summit some nice people from the tor project brought me back to San Francisco and showed me their “Hacker space” and some nice Burrito restaurant. This is my last day here now in one of the coolest hostels of the world and I have to say that I enjoyed it a lot.
Looking forward to another 13 hours flight and 8 hour timeshift 😉