[SoC] [Action required] Please prepare the ideas page for GSoC 2018

[Margherita Di Leo]

Dear All,

Google has started screening mentor orgs ideas pages: please, make sure
your ideas page is in order and nothing is missing. Excerpt from an email
to admins and former mentors:

"It seems quite a few veteran orgs have 0, or very few, projects listed on
their Ideas List for their GSoC Org apps. Some have something like "coming
soon" with no actual ideas on their page - *this will result in an
automatic rejection* - please don't let that be you!

Our team has been reviewing hundreds of applications this week and taking
notes and we have noticed MANY orgs that have not completed their lists
(have 1-2 ideas or ideas with 1 sentence describing the problem) or say
'coming in March', 'coming soon', etc. That's a 'Reject in our book.

We will meet Monday, Jan 29 as a team to start our multi day meetings going
through each and every org application together so you have until Monday at
19:00 UTC to get your ideas onto your list. You can always add more ideas
later but if you are an Umbrella Org you should have plenty of ideas listed
now - and if you are a smaller org you should have 4-5 well developed ideas
minimum.

And please don't just link to a bug tracker. If the bug tracker has
extensive descriptions about the project/problem then that can sometimes be
fine. But just saying here are 5 things we want worked on and a sentence
about each isn't going to cut it.

*If you are an Org Admin I strongly encourage you to go back and look at
your Ideas List before Monday at 19:00 UTC and make sure it is
representative of what you want us to evaluate. *

Every year we have a few orgs who give us bad URLs or don't give us access
permission to see their Project Ideas List. Again, please don't be that
org... (your community will not be happy).

Remember, *the #1 thing our team considers when choosing which orgs to
accept is the quality of the Project Ideas list*. If you have nothing for
us to look at we have to reject you.

Please don't ask us to go and see if your application is okay. If you have
a solid Project Ideas List and have read the Defining a Project Ideas list
from the Mentor Guide
<https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list> and
followed the advice your list is likely good to go."

Regards,


On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> this is a gentle reminder to send us your project's ideas page and to
> appoint as a mentor for GSoC 2018!
> For any doubts, do not hesitate to contact us admins at
> gsoc-admin at osgeo.org
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> please read https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-p
>> roject-ideas-list for defining your project's ideas list.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear members of the Community,
>>>
>>> this is a reminder that to participate in GSoC also this year we need
>>> you to send us (admins:  <gsoc-admin at osgeo.org>) the URL for your
>>> project's ideas page.
>>>
>>> Every idea should indicate a title, a description, 2 mentors and a test
>>> for the students to submit to your evaluation. The test aims at evaluating
>>> if the student is capable for the project, so please design the test having
>>> in mind the skills required to complete the project.
>>>
>>> Time is short, we need to collect all URLs by Jan 20.
>>>
>>> Thanks and please forward to your project community.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Margherita Di Leo
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Margherita Di Leo
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Margherita Di Leo
>



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Margherita Di Leo
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