On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:53:57PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: > On 02/15/2011 03:35 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > We could also ask for more slots to increase the chance to have > > science-related projects selected. > > Can we ask? I thought we were assigned a fixed number of slots > and had to just live with it.
As Sylvestre replied already, each org can request more slots after the initial allocation, but they may not get them or may not get all they ask for, as their availability mostly relies on other orgs giving back slots they have been allocated but don't think they can usefully use. But also note that the initial allocation would likely be higher with med and/or science projects included. Here is a summary from 2009 (I couldn't find a similar document for 2010, and things may have changed somewhat since 2009 as Carol has taken over from Leslie as the Google person running the show) of how slots are allocated: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/studentallocations So if Debian offered a wider range on projects and this resulted in more students putting in applications to us, we'd be likely to get more slots allocated. Also, being more of an "umbrella org" would tend to mean more slots too. I'm not sure what makes most sense overall, but slot allocations probably shouldn't be the main concern. Cheers, Olly _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
