Re: Fwd: [Announce] Slot Allocations, Student Proposals, and Deduplication - Long But Important

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hallo!

GSoC mentors for GNU, it's high time for some activity!  On
<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/dashboard/google/gsoc2011>, I can see
quite a lot of proposals that have had no comments and no voting yet.

However: *TODAY* we have to register the number of desired mentoring
slots with Google!

See Rodrigo's email below, *Step One* is the important one at the moment.
The step itself isn't for you (that's for us administrator folks), but we
need your data, if you want your projects' applications to be considered,
or not.  And we need that *NOW*.  Please go to that page, and review at
least your subprojects' applications, and also some others that you feel
comfortable with.  If you'd like an application to be dropped, please
file that as a private comment, too.  Doing so saves your administrators
From a lot of guessing.

Also, it is still possible to add new mentors.


On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:05:49 -0300, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Important announcement.
> 
> -------- Mensagem original --------
> Assunto:      [Announce] Slot Allocations, Student Proposals, and
> Deduplication - Long But Important
> Data:         Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:59:02 -0700
> De:   Carol Smith <address@hidden>
> Para:         Google Summer of Code Mentors List
> <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is an email that contains all the information you need for the next
> couple weeks. Please read it thoroughly and follow the steps through to
> the end. Dates should be clear, but please let me know if they're not.
> 
> *Step One :* (Org Admins Only) By your EOD tomorrow (12 April), please
> make sure your slot allocation request is accurate. Go to My Dashboard
> --> My Organizations Lists, click on your organization and this will
> take you to your organization homepage. At the top of the page click the
> "Edit" link. You'll see two slot numbers on the page - "amazing" and
> "desired." "Amazing" is your lower threshold - this is the number of
> slots you would need to accommodate your absolutely most amazing
> proposals. "Desired" is your upper threshold - this is the number of
> slots you would love to have in an ideal world. Filling these boxes in
> shouldn't take long, please just check to make sure they're filled in
> and accurate.
> 
> *Step Two:* I will announce slot allocations tomorrow after the close of
> business pacific time. If you are happy with your slot allocation for
> this year, you can continue accepting and rejecting proposals until 20
> April. If your org ends up with more slots than it has excellent
> proposals (or available mentors), you will be able to give back slots to
> the pool. To do this, you'll need to click on your Organization Homepage
> again. Click on "Slots" button (nb: this button isn't there yet but will
> be soon) and select how many slots you want to give away and add a note
> to me if you'd like to give them to a particular org. I will approve
> each of these trades individually.
> 
> *Step Three:* Please assign mentors to all the proposals you plan to
> accept (or even hope to accept) ASAP. While it isn't required that we
> have mentors assigned before we assign slots, it's still a very
> important indicator to us about your ability to accommodate student
> projects this year. We want it done as early in the process as possible.
> It will help me get a better sense of what slot trades to accept or
> reject as well, so as soon as you've verified your slot requests, please
> make sure you've assigned your mentors.
> 
> *Step Four:* You have between now and 20 April to review and accept,
> reject, ignore, and review your student proposals. How you decide which
> proposals you accept or reject is up to you - ranking has no bearing on
> what students are accepted this year. Only students who you explicitly
> accept will be accepted (I hope this is obvious). You will also be able
> to accept students in bulk on the dashboard if you so choose.
> 
> On 20 April I will run our first round of deduplication checks [1].
> After that, if you are in a duplicate situation with another org, your
> org admin will be able to see a list in red of the student proposals on
> the review proposal page that are in this situation and a way to contact
> the fellow org to work it out. We will have two days to try to resolve
> as many of these as we can. The final point at which we can resolve
> these situations is in the deduplication meeting.
> 
> *Step Five:* You will need to attend the deduplication IRC meeting on
> Friday, 22 April at 19:00 UTC. Even if you are one of the lucky orgs to
> not have any duplicates with a fellow org immediately preceding the
> meeting, you are still required to have someone(s) attend the meeting
> who can make a quick decision on your behalf when and if our playing
> around with the system happens to put you in a duplicate situation. This
> IRC meeting is the last point at which student decisions can be made, so
> please know your preferences when you go into it. The decisions made in
> this meeting are final.
> 
> *Step Six:* Please do not discuss acceptance or rejection with the
> students until I have announced it on Monday, 25 April.
> 
> Thanks for your help, everyone! If you have specific questions please
> email me directly.
> 
> [1] - For those of you who don't know, "duplication" means a student
> submitted proposals to multiple orgs and has been accepted by more than
> one of them. We have to resolve all these duplicate issues before we
> announce accepted students on 25 April.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carol
> 
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Grüße,
 Thomas

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