[SoC] Next steps (long but VERY important)

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

On 9 April 2010 23:59, Wolf Bergenheim <wolf+grass at bergenheim.net> wrote:
> GSoC 2010 is on!
>
> The student application period closed 2 hours ago. We ended up with 56
> applications in all, very nice. It is about the same as last year,
> though I feel the applications are of a better over all quality. At
> least there was much talk about them, which is always a good sign.
>
> So what happens next?
> =================
>
> If you are a student, please subscribe to your proposals and answer
> any questions mentors post. You can no longer edit the application,
> but you can write comments ,and "fix" your application that way.
>
> If you are a mentor, you have more to do. First off, if an application
> is something you could mentor, please press the "I am willing to
> mentor this student button", and add a private  comment, if you think
> you should only be a backup mentor. Second you should be reading and
> reviewing applications. Please try to comment all applications, and if
> you feel like it you can give it a score. Third each project mentors
> should somehow agree on a project specific ranking, and send an email
> to the admins about your preferred order. There are many ways to do it
> and OSGeo will not interfere, but one way could be to involve the PSC
> of your project and have them select, or you can vote amongst your
> selves (note that there are students on this list, so, it wouldn't be
> appropriate to use this list). The ranking has to be done by the end
> of Friday, April 16th, your local time. Yes the Google deadline is the
> 18th, but the admins will need to re-adjust the rankings of all
> projects and might need to do some adjustments. Please don't be late.
> Or else we'll use random ordering. Okay that is it for you mentors for
> now. Thank you for your co-operation, and have fun evaluating the
> proposals!
>
> The admins will start going through the list of applications tomorrow,
> marking spam [I don't think we got any] (if you see an applications
> trying to sell v1agra or any such stuff, don't hesitate to press the
> "mark ineligible" button), and assigning mentors. If there are many,
> we'll have to make a selection and will probably select the mentor who
> has commented most, if we don't have anything else to go by. Don't
> worry this can be changed, in case we pick wrong send me a note or
> leave a comment, and we'll fix it. Remember, we are here to help you
> in case you are having problems with anything, or have questions. Also
> we might be commenting on student applications, if there is something
> we find unclear ;)
>
> Happy reading everyone,
> Wolf Bergenheim
> OSGeo GSoC 2010 Administrator
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So Wolf, just to be clear..

The votes on the melange application are useless as the mentors (or
every project PSC) have to do the ranking, Am I right??

For gvSIG project, the project leaders agreed that the ranking will be
done by the Technical Steering Committee and I'll send to you the
results (as the person in charge of the gvSIG GSoC participation).

What will be the OSGeo protocol to decide the proposals selection? I
think I haven't read anything about it before.

Best regards
-- 
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
http://jorgesanz.net