On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote: > I'm chasing down the remaining 50% of mentors who haven't connected > with our organization in Melange. > > We've got 3.5 days left to help students get at least basic proposals > in for us to begin working with. Thank you, Karsten! I completed a couple of first pass reviews. My focus has been to (1) request the student to think it terms of a concrete mid-term deliverable; (2) spot any ambitious ('everything complete before mid-term') schedule for the tasks; (3) seek modifications in the proposal to demonstrate that they have studied and assessed the current state-of-affairs (ie. the actual problem they are trying to solve); (4) whether the proposal is relevant to the organization (we have one and perhaps there will be more completely irrelevant in-bound proposals). The two aspects I have held back from asking are (a) the way the students would prefer to post their updates. Ideally, regular blog posts which can then be aggregated to a 'Planet' is best And, (b) how they intend to design their development work-flow. That is, whether the projects would have a Github presence with Issues and PRs being generated thus enabling a systematic and transparent development method. As we work up to the final form of the proposal, the good ones will have milestones and dates which can be converted into reminders (using a calendaring system etc). -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay>