[SoC] Re: OSGeo Google Summer of Code
Cory Horner
chorner at refractions.net
Wed Mar 28 12:52:47 EDT 2007
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>> I haven't received any response to my inquiry about mentors for the
>> PostGIS projects. Perhaps I was a little to obnoxious?
I think they just went directly into the scoring app and did their thing.
I could prod a couple PostGIS people here to get their mentorship
applications in.
> Well, I am still unclear on how the project selection process works. Do
> we need to "mod" all the projects into our order of preference and then
> google auto-selects based on that? Or do we take some concrete action
> for selection
Last year it was based on score, so we ended up with our top 3 which was
not what we wanted. For our safety we should probably fix the scores to
what we collectively want.
> I feel that the current ranks don't reflect what I would consider the
> proper priority list. Partly because I think we should be aiming for
> each participating project with a credible application getting one.
> The current rankings boost some projects with very active modding mentors
> to a dominant position.
>
> ...
>
> If it will be based on the scores on the application list, then I think we
> need to have a meeting to prioritize and then re-score to put things in the
> desired order.
Agreed... i am NOT a fan of the people who showed up and added a bunch
of +4 votes just to get their favourite proposal to the top. I propose
the following:
1) we sort out which applications belong to which projects (this is
simple in most cases, but some applications are multi-project)
2) each project ranks their proposals independently
3) we all meet and decide which projects get the slots depending on how
many slots we get. ie slot #1 goes to GRASS, slot #2 to GDAL, etc...
We can then score the projects based on these...
Cory.
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