Ben Gertzfield is our 11th mentor

[Ali Çehreli]

On 04/18/2011 12:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Ben Gertzfield, my Facebook coworker, is our 11th mentor for this year's
> GSoC. Please join me in welcoming Ben.
>
> Although this year we only have three formal mentor slots, I decided to
> approve Ben for two reasons. First, more mentors means a stronger GSoC
> presence overall and more competent opinions and ideas on the mentors
> list, and Ben is definitely one to listen to.
>
> Second, I believe Ben has what it takes to be a great mentor because he
> knows a lot about a lot, knows how to explain, and enjoys teaching. He
> has helped me in a variety of situations ranging from fixing my cell
> phone to debugging my VMWare virtual machine. Ben also added support for
> the D programming language to Facebook's build system and is overall
> interested in the evolution of the language.
>
> We haven't decided who the three formal mentors will be for our slots,
> but I'm sure Ben's participation will add good value to our GSoC presence.
>
>
> Andrei

Congratulations Ben!

I worked with Ben previously at PayPal and VMware. Andrei is not 
exaggerating. :)

Ali