Playing the Matchmaker: Linking Students and Mentors While Strengthening Academic...
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Program grows from a GSoC model into OSRE: a 10–12 week remote summer program where students join Slack early, submit proposals, mentors rank candidates, and each mentor takes no more than two or three students. It scales from 2 initial GSoC students to 37 students this summer and pairs high-touch one-on-one weekly Zoom mentorship that produces maintainers, graduate admits and repeat mentors; requires a point person, sponsor funding and paid student stipends.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Academic open source mentorship
- 4:58Program office structure
- 7:06Open source research center evolution
- 11:43Diversity challenges in mentorship
- 14:59Mentorship matchmaking approaches
- 17:31Open Source Research Experience details
- 23:49Instructor-led community mentorship
- 27:40OSRE Catalyst program
- 31:14Mentorship program investment
- 33:44Mentorship program resources
- 34:41Q&A
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