Re: [sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
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, Haral

Re: [sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Christopher Swenson
Congrats on getting picked this year! --Christopher On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 14:56, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 22:49, David Roe wrote: > > People may have been discouraged by our repeated failure to be selected > in > > previous years. > > yes, i think our goal should be to

Re: [sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Harald Schilly
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 22:49, David Roe wrote: > People may have been discouraged by our repeated failure to be selected in > previous years. yes, i think our goal should be to have just a few - but very promising - projects for the summer. then we can build on that for the next year. but it's s

Re: [sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread David Roe
Fantastic! I hope that more people will submit ideas. People may have been discouraged by our repeated failure to be selected in previous years. And well done Harald. David On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 17:41, Harald Schilly wrote: > Hi everyone. Sage got accepted as a mentoring organization for the

[sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Harald Schilly
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