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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] GSOC 2011 projects
On 2011-03-24 03:17, Dave Pawson wrote: > > So they are using the docbook ideas page in preference to the > submissions? How weird. No, these are two things. The first stage for Google is to choose mentoring organizations. The second stage is for chosen mentoring organizations to submits project proposals, based on which it gets allocated a certain number of slots. We were in the first stage, where Google evaluates potential mentoring organizations. They use a set of criteria to figure out which ones to pick, and it seems they used the "ideas" pages as a metric to get a sense of a) what kind of projects organizations offered, and b) how well an organization supported its students. In other words, this was about the organization, not about specific proposals. (Ironically, as David pointed out, we have had discussions in the past about how best to encourage student participation, and one of the themes that was even discussed at last year's mentor summit was to *not* over-specify ideas, as a means to require students to put more effort into putting together a proposal. That would allow organizations to better evaluate prospective students, reducing the risk of projects being abandoned.) Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
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