Re: Welcome SOCIS 2013 Applicants

[Carnë Draug]

On 28 August 2013 22:48, mcecchetti <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
>> On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 12:37 -0700, mcecchetti wrote:
>>
>>> today I discovered that the list of selected students for SOCIS has
>>> been published, indeed I am a bit disappointed to find out I was not
>>> selected for the proposed octave project. I would like to know which
>>> points of my application has been evaluated too weak compared to the
>>> project proposal of the selected student.
>>
>> I'd like to know too. You seemed to at least be involved with us. You
>> posted a bug fix and have been somewhat chatty on the mailing list. I
>> haven't seen anything from Roberto Porcù. I can't even find his public
>> application template.
>>
>> This is not to say that the best student didn't won, just that at
>> least from where I'm standing, I don't understand what happened. Mind
>> you, I didn't follow the SOCIS application process at all.
>>
>> - Jordi G. H.
>
>
> I am not saying that Roberto Porcù is not the best student for this project,
> too. I hope to have not been plaintive, I was just a bit surprised that he
> has been preferred even if I provided a fix to a not so trivial bug (showing
> at least my skill to get inside octave source code even if I started from
> scratch) whilst he did not posted any contribute. Probably he owns a better
> knowledge on the project subject, as he stated, however it is difficult to
> evaluate because he did not provide any link in his application.

I'm but a biologist and know little of the underlying maths, but he
did present his own work using Octave during OctConf some 2 months
ago[1].

Carnë

[1] http://wiki.octave.org/wiki/images/2/29/Slides_octconf_roberto_porcu.pdf