Mentors for the four efforts have been confirmed:
Connectors
OCAL Interface
Topic Applicant Mentor
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Connectors - Michael Wybrow Pjrm Inkboard - David Yip Ted OCAL Interface - Greg Steffensen Bryce DXF Import/Export - Matthew Squires JonCruz
Mentors and applicants should probably touch base, to talk both about schedule and about what the applicant would like to learn. For example, if they've not participated in open source projects, it would be worthwhile for the mentor to point out how Inkscape works, compare it with other projects, etc.
Some logistics: Since we're in a feature freeze for the 0.42 release currently, applicants should not submit patches or commits to the main codebase quite yet. I figure it may be a few weeks before we have 0.42 done. This is probably fine, since the applicants will need time to get up to speed anyway. ;-)
Bryce