Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-09 Thread dsimcha
On 4/9/2011 9:49 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/9/11 7:02 AM, Jens Mueller wrote: 4. Is each mentor supposed to review all of the proposals, or just the ones in his/her domain that he/she feels qualified to evaluate? For example, I feel very comfortable reviewing a proposal about garbage co

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/9/11 7:02 AM, Jens Mueller wrote: 4. Is each mentor supposed to review all of the proposals, or just the ones in his/her domain that he/she feels qualified to evaluate? For example, I feel very comfortable reviewing a proposal about garbage collection or containers, but I would have little

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-09 Thread Jens Mueller
dsimcha wrote: > On 4/8/2011 2:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >On 4/8/11 11:35 AM, Luca Boasso wrote: > >>Who is going to interview the students? > >>Will the mentor interested in the student be the interviewer or a > >>selected group of the community? > > > >I plan to interview qualified cand

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-08 Thread dsimcha
On 4/8/2011 2:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/8/11 11:35 AM, Luca Boasso wrote: Who is going to interview the students? Will the mentor interested in the student be the interviewer or a selected group of the community? I plan to interview qualified candidates personally. An interested m

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-08 Thread Luca Boasso
Thank you for the information Luca On 4/8/11, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 4/8/11 11:35 AM, Luca Boasso wrote: >> Who is going to interview the students? >> Will the mentor interested in the student be the interviewer or a >> selected group of the community? > > I plan to interview qualified

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/8/11 11:35 AM, Luca Boasso wrote: Who is going to interview the students? Will the mentor interested in the student be the interviewer or a selected group of the community? I plan to interview qualified candidates personally. An interested mentor could choose to hold the interview in addi

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-08 Thread Luca Boasso
Who is going to interview the students? Will the mentor interested in the student be the interviewer or a selected group of the community? Luca On 4/8/11, Fawzi Mohamed wrote: > > On 8-apr-11, at 17:15, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> On 4/8/11 8:40 AM, dsimcha wrote: >>> I've been looking over

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-08 Thread Fawzi Mohamed
On 8-apr-11, at 17:15, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/8/11 8:40 AM, dsimcha wrote: I've been looking over some of the GSoC proposals and I've noticed that most aren't very detailed. It seems most of the students have only a very rough idea of what they want to do and plan on filling in the

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/8/11 8:40 AM, dsimcha wrote: I've been looking over some of the GSoC proposals and I've noticed that most aren't very detailed. It seems most of the students have only a very rough idea of what they want to do and plan on filling in the details at the beginning of the project. I don't have e

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-08 Thread Ishan Thilina
>I don't have experience with GSoC either, but I fear that the very >simple "I would like to work on X" proposal will have to be discarded. >As andrei said the students have to convince us that they can do the >project, and this means: >- good project >- knowledge of the field >- knowledge of the t

Re: GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-08 Thread Fawzi Mohamed
On 8-apr-11, at 15:40, dsimcha wrote: I've been looking over some of the GSoC proposals and I've noticed that most aren't very detailed. It seems most of the students have only a very rough idea of what they want to do and plan on filling in the details at the beginning of the project. I

GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

2011-04-08 Thread dsimcha
I've been looking over some of the GSoC proposals and I've noticed that most aren't very detailed. It seems most of the students have only a very rough idea of what they want to do and plan on filling in the details at the beginning of the project. I don't have experience with GSoC and I'm tr