[CentOS-gsocadmin] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Please Read: Welcome! And the month ahead for GSoC 2015

Tue Mar 24 04:53:09 UTC 2015
Corey Henderson <corman at cormander.com>

I didn't get the below. Please fix me. Thanks!

On 3/23/2015 4:04 PM, Karsten Wade wrote:
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> 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.
>
>
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> 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
>
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