Hey, On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 05:40:16PM +0200, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote: > On 16/09/14 17:48, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > >On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 10:22 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > >>So it's better to only have 15 students working on important things, > >>rather than having these 15 students, plus 10 others working on less > >>important things? > > > >Nope! But maybe with a better selection process we could instead end up > >with 20 students working on important things, with 5 working on less > >important things, and hopefully 0 on projects that don't match GNOME's > >priorities at all. > > Maybe in the years that Google doesn't give many slots, you're right, a > better selection process would help. But for example, this year's summer, > Google gave enough slots to cover all the students that had good ratings > from the mentors. So in cases like this, if more "less important" things > have been selected by the students, you cannot really do anything. We don't > tell the students to cancel their proposal and make another proposal for a > different module. The ratings are based both on the quality of the proposal > and the quality of the background of the students (the likelihood that the > student is going to do a good job). > > So in this case, the only way for the overall numbers to have more people > working on important modules than on non-important ones, would be to reject > the proposals for the non-important modules, leaving the slots empty. And > slots empty doesn't mean that they get reserved for next years or that the > stipend comes to the Foundation or anything, so it doesn't make much sense > to do this.
Something which would help to focus student proposals on 'important' modules would be to have many more ideas for these modules on the idea page https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2014/Ideas as early as possible. I'd say that at least half of the students make a proposal based on an idea from this page. However, if we try to do that, I suspect we'll quickly hit a limit on mentoring resources for said projects. We generally don't recommend that a mentor has more than 2 students to take care of during summer. Christophe
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