Getting paid to work on deviation

If like to register deviation as an organization that can mentor students working on deviation for the 2016 Google summer of code. If you're not familiar with it, this is a Google project that pays students to work on open source projects. The open source project may get code or of it, but that's not the goal.

I think there are a number of good projects for this: updating the standard GUI, extending it for fixed wing aircraft and multirotors, some protocol work, maybe work on the universal module, and certainly others.

However, it needs at least two open source developers to be organizers/mentors. I'm one, so we need at least one other person. Since I can't help with the UM, that would need two who can help with the hardware.

So is smeone out there willing to take this on with me?

Mike, dont think I've ever discussed this here but I'm a home school science / IT instructor for a local home school collaboration group.

Im not able to be a mentor in the sense of me helping kids on how to code but I'd be glad to help in general and on any sort of lesson planning / organization there may be. I've been told I'm very good at keeping students on track (perhaps that comes from my day job- animal farmer lol).

If there's anything like that which needs done don't hesitate to ask. Again I don't really do code, not on the level you need for this, however I've been concentrating on more and more IT type stuff, including arduino projects, for the past 2 years now... don't have any idea what this Google summer of code project consists of but I'm going to look into it for sure.

GSOC doesn't really do lesson plans. Students look over the organizations that have signed up, and then write up a project proposal they'd like to work on. That could be from a list suggested by the organization, from a feature request in an issue tracker, or the student own idea. Mentors look at the proposals for projects for the organizations they are signed up for, and mark the ones thing are willing to mentor for. Google then picks projects to sponsor from those that meet these criteria. I think deviation would fare well there, as it's unique and cross-discipline, but I could be wrong.

Mentoring is more about keeping the students on task than coding. But you need to be able to read their code and evaluate it, plus offer them advice about it, because keeping them from going down blind alleys in the code is part of that. As well as doing evaluations for Google along the way.