Excellent news! I second Harald's call that quality is better than quantity when it comes to both students and projects. Requiring potential students to have at least one non-trivial (well written) submission before selection is a great way of measuring this.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. Sage got accepted as a mentoring organization for the GSoC > project. > > This means, there will a couple of new students who pop up here and start > asking about various projects and other issues regarding Sage. We have never > been accepted to GSoC before, so we also have to find a way to organize all > this. > > our page: > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/sage > > project ideas (only ideas! students can also submit other proposals) > https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1v91UmkDvgEInzPFT_g0osid5g69oKKmyx0NclwcyqI4 > > timeline: > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012 > > I already wrote to all possible mentors to create an account at this > google-melange.com page and everyone additionally has to apply as a mentor! > Maybe someone else feels fit to guide a student through a summer project, > too? > > Besides that, there are some resources about this. Additionally to the FAQ > on the gsoc page, i found this: > http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/notes-for-first-year-organizations/ > > H > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org