Not a mentor, but thought i should share my experience
Nearing the end of the program I had a working prototype of the 
whiteboard, work needs done is 
applying transform changes 
implementing layer ordering
history rollback
muc session establishment
the infrastructure and initial work on these is done, just a matter of sitting down
and coding, all in all i think its about 2 weeks work. however as a result of the 
soc program i am somewhat homeless and unemployed. 
I didnt get as much work as I wanted to done, and in hindsight applying for soc was
probably a mistake. but once i get my situation sorted out I will be back with on 
with inkscape