-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 All: As most of you have seen by now, I was the one who failed to turn in mid-term evaluations for my two students by the deadline. tl;dnr I'm really very sorry, I feel quite like an idiot, and I've caused our organization to be uninvited from this year's Mentor Summit. There is no excuse for this. I'm sure you've all experienced stresses of personal and work life, with conflicting deadlines and priorities. Regardless of all that and how hard it can be, we have to either get things done or ask for help in time so that it gets done and doesn't fall down between the cracks. What made this particularly egregious, which caused me deep heartache when I realized I missed the deadline, was the stress on the students and potential risk of their not being paid for their work so far. Fortunately the Google team will accept the late evaluations, which were all passing. Unfortunately, my (in)action has caused the CentOS Project to be removed from the attendee list for this year's GSoC Mentor Summit. That is really sad because you all have worked hard, too, and deserve a chance to attend the Mentor Summit. As an experienced admin and mentor I should not have made this basic and costly mistake. For all of this, for not being a very good admin this year, and for messing up our Mentor Summit attendance, I offer all of you my deepest apologies. I'm very sorry. Shaun McCance has agreed to co-mentor with me for my two students for the remainder of the summer. My wish here is to improve the students' experience and get things to a good close. I also hope I can be a bit more effective on the admin side, such as helping us all improve our communication outward and across the project. Thank you for your understanding, Regards, - - Karsten - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlWauX0ACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEH58QCgt3VPdkxuaqOKr9LD3Wgy36iO QLEAnjGe9T3UZsiUOQbgjzcscjVx5FR5 =GPRr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----