[SoC] Re: OSGeo Google Summer of Code

[Daniel Morissette]

Cory Horner wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

If that's how it works then I agree with you.

>> ...
>  >
>> 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...
> 

That sounds like a very good plan. Then I can use my votes in a 
meaningful way because at the moment I have really no idea of the best 
way to vote.

Daniel
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