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On 03/24/2015 05:42 AM, Lars Kurth wrote:
Karsten,
what I really wanted to ask is how the CentOS community wants to handle 7, assuming there are always too many GSoC applicants. All the other steps are understood.
Thanks, & just getting around to replying, sorry for the delay.
What I did in the past was to organize 1-3 private meetings with mentors to come up with a shortlist and figure out how many slots to allocate. The scoring mechanism is OK, but people tend to give their proposals often a higher score than they should and mentors have different expectations. Coming up with a shortlist (or ordered list of applicants) can be a bit of a chore for larger projects and there could be disagreements between mentors of course.
I don't really have any issues with that approach, it's different than what I've done in the past. I haven't had too many issues with not being able to sort out the priority order -- mentors are usually honest when they are up-voting for personal desire v. because they like/dislike other proposals.
And from past experience I found that it is better to focus on the best students and the ones who engage with the mailing list very publicly straight from the beginning. Those who don't rarely tend to engage more during the program.
This is quite true.
Anyway, I'm glad we discussed this transparently here, but as it's about GSoC process (v. technical discussion), I'm going to start a new thread on centos-gsoc@ list to discuss our proposal finalizing process.
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