On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > It's great to see that this year there are a lot of students interested in > doing a GSoC project with Numpy or Scipy. So far five proposals have been > submitted, and it looks like several more are being prepared now. I'd like > to give you a bit of advice as well as an idea of what's going to happen in > the few weeks. > > The deadline for submitting applications is 27 March. Don't wait until the > last day to submit your proposal! It has happened before that Melange was > overloaded and unavailable - the Google program admins will not accept that > as an excuse and allow you to submit later. So as soon as your proposal is > in good shape, put it in. You can still continue revising it. > > From 28 March until 13 April we will continue to interact with you, as we > request slots from the PSF and rank the proposals. We don't know how many > slots we will get this year, but to give you an impression: for the last > two years we got 2 slots. Hopefully we can get more this year, but that's > far from certain. > > Our ranking will be based on a combination of factors: the interaction > you've had with potential mentors and the community until now (and continue > to have), the quality of your submitted PRs, quality and projected impact > of your proposal, your enthusiasm, match with potential mentors, etc. We > will also organize a video call (Skype / Google Hangout / ...) with each of > you during the first half of April to be able to exchange ideas with a > higher communication bandwidth medium than email. > > Finally a note on mentoring: we will be able to mentor all proposals > submitted or suggested until now. Due to the large interest and technical > nature of a few topics it has in some cases taken a bit long to provide > feedback on draft proposals, however there are no showstoppers in this > regard. Please continue improving your proposals and working with your > potential mentors. > Hi all, just a heads up that I'll be offline until next Friday. Good luck everyone with the last-minute proposal edits. I plan to contact all students that submitted a GSoC application next weekend with more details on what will happen next and see when we can schedule a call. Cheers, Ralf
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