I didn't get the below. Please fix me. Thanks! On 3/23/2015 4:04 PM, Karsten Wade wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > If you didn't get this it's because you may not be signed up properly > as a mentor, let me know so we can fix ASAP. > > Good answers and points below. > > > - -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Please Read: Welcome! And the month > ahead for GSoC 2015 > Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:15:48 -0700 > From: 'Carol Smith' via Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List > <gsoc-mentors-announce at googlegroups.com> > Reply-To: gsoc-mentors-announce+owners at googlegroups.com > To: GSoC Mentors Announce <gsoc-mentors-announce at googlegroups.com> > > Hi there, > > Congratulations on being more than halfway through student proposal > submissions! Welcome to GSoC 2015! We're looking forward to spending thi > s > program with you. > > This is an email that contains all the information your organization nee > ds > for the next month. Please read it thoroughly and follow the steps throu > gh > to the end. > > *Step One:* You have between now and 23 April to review and accept, > ignore, > and rank (if applicable) your student proposals. How you decide which > proposals you accept is up to you. Keep in mind that ranking (the "star > system" on the proposals) has no bearing on what students are accepted. > Only students who you explicitly accept and assign a mentor to will be > accepted. > > *Step Two:* (Org Admins Only) By 23:00 UTC on 13 April, please make sure > your slot allocation request is accurate. Go to My Dashboard --> Managed > Organizations, click on your organization. Click on the Preferences tab > of > your profile. You'll see two slot numbers on the page: "min" and "max." > "Min" is your lower threshold - this is the number of slots you would ne > ed > to accommodate your absolutely most amazing proposals. "Max" is your upp > er > threshold - this is the number of slots you would love to have in an ide > al > world. You may also want to read the Notes on Allocations > <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gs > oc2015/studentallocations> > document, particularly if you're a new org, to get a sense of how we do > this process and what's rational to expect. If you do not fill in your > slot > allocation request by the deadline you will be allocated 1 slot for your > org this year. > > *Step Three:* (Org Admins Only) I will announce slot allocations > Wednesday, > 15 April 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 23 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 go to your > Organization profile again and you will now be able to click on the "Slo > ts > Transfer" tab. Select how many slots you want to give away. Add a note t > o > us if you'd like to give them to a particular org. We will approve each > of > these trades individually. Conversely, if your org ends up with not enou > gh > slots for all the proposals you want to accept this year, please email m > e > directly I will make a note of it on our waiting list. You will be given > more slots when and if some come back into the pool. > > *Step Four:* (Org Admins Only) Please assign mentors to all the proposal > s > you plan to accept (or even hope to accept) ASAP. ***You will not be abl > e > to accept a proposal that does not have a mentor assigned even if you > have the slots to accommodate the proposal and mark it as accepted.*** > > *Step Five:* (Org Admins Only) On 21 April I will run our first round of > deduplication [1] checks. After that, if you are in a duplicate situatio > n > with another org, you will be able to see a list in red of the student > proposals on the review proposal page that are in this situation. You wi > ll > also see a way to contact the fellow org to work it out. We will have fo > ur > days to try to resolve as many of these as we can. You may consult > with the > student about his/her preference on which org he/she would like to be > accepted for, but *you do not have to*. We assume that students have not > applied for any org they would not be willing to work with. > > *Step Six:* The final point at which we can resolve these situations is > in > the Deduplication Meeting. You must attend this IRC meeting (in #gsoc on > freenode) on Friday, 24 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 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, and will be made by myself (arbitrarily) if > neither > organization can come to an agreement. ***If no one is in the meeting to > represent your org and we need input from you, the student will > automatically go to the other org.*** > > *Step Seven:* (Org Admins Only) Please make sure that you have looked > over > the welcome message your organization will be sending your accepted > students as part of their acceptance email to make sure it's accurate. G > o > to My Dashboard --> Managed Organizations and click on the organization. > Click on the Preferences tab. Scroll down to "Message to accepted > students" > on your profile and make sure it looks correct. Save the profile if you > make any changes. > > *Step Eight:* Please do not discuss acceptance or rejection with the > students until I have announced it on Monday, 27 April. > > Thanks for your help, everyone! > > [1] - "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 27 April. > > Cheers, > Carol > > - -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to gsoc-mentors-announce+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-mentors-announce > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > - -- > Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff > http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com > @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iEYEARECAAYFAlUQjgUACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEFTRQCeM+wgg7vzaU8WQz3bBsr+AOK/ > DKwAoOc5wJBlgEbPbr7WGhOfHtMI16FI > =x2Pf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-gsocadmin mailing list > CentOS-gsocadmin at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-gsocadmin >