If you wanted to make any edits, now is the time. I am finishing up my
edits now and am going to submit what I have. I will also check again on
Friday to see if anyone made any changes and submit again if there are
(also please let me know here if you do make changes so that I won't
forget).
We also need people to update the ideas page and the application template.
The idea page is very important. At the summits, we've heard from Google
that the ideas page is the most important part of the application. The
template is perhaps less important for Google (although who knows), but
more important for the students, as it tells them how to get started with
the project, and what to put in their proposals.
I have a question about the application. There is a paragraph:
This year we plan to require each student to spend at least 10% or more of
> their time in reviewing other people's pull requests (PRs) (most of these
> will
> invariably be from other GSoC students, since they tend to be the most
> active
> contributors during the summer time). That way, they will become more
> integrated in our community and hopefully more likely to stay after the
> GSoC
> is over. Historically, students that were active in our PR queue were more
> likely to stay afterwords.
("this year" refers to last year, as this is unmodified from the 2014
application)
Did we actually do this? Should we leave it in that we want to do this? I
don't particularly remember making strong on this requirement, but maybe
other mentors did a better job than I did. If you did make your students
review pull requests, did it help?
Aaron Meurer
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am going through and making small changes now. Kudos to Sean for
> fixing up the application and making his own changes already.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for larger changes that should be
> made to the application?
>
> Note that the deadline is this Friday (the 20th).
>
> As a side note, as part of updating one of the sections, I cleaned up
> the push access list a little bit, removing anyone who hasn't pushed
> anything to the SymPy main repo in a over a year. If you used to have
> push access and you don't any more, just let me know and I can add you
> back.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The GSoC organization application period has started. The application
> > deadline is February 20. Action items:
> >
> > - If you are a prospective student, you don't need to do anything yet.
> > Just continue to interact with the community here, on GitHub, and on
> > Gitter.
> >
> > - If you are willing to mentor, please add your name to the bottom of
> > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2015-Ideas. This is very
> > important. Google won't accept our application if we don't have any
> > potential mentors. It also affects how many slots we get. Even if you
> > are only willing to mentor certain kinds of projects, still put your
> > name there, with the projects you will mentor.
> >
> > - Everyone, please review the application
> > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2015-Organization-Application.
> > As of yet, this is still a copy of last year's application. I will go
> > through later and at least make sure that the questions are still
> > correct.
> >
> > Feel free to just make changes to the wiki page. I will review all
> > changes that come in.
> >
> > If you have any suggestions that you would like to discuss regarding
> > the application, feel free to do so here.
> >
> > Aaron Meurer
>
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