There are instructions for students for introducing themselves on the mailing list in the *student instructions *and discussing an idea on the mailing list on the* ideas page*. But there is nothing to encourage students to have a public discussion on the mailing list over messaging the mentors personally.
I think it would be a good idea to add something to both the Student Instructions and the Ideas page like *'We encourage you to discuss your ideas publicly on the mailing list rather than messaging the mentors privately with your ideas.' *We can even make it more elaborate if that would be better. On Friday, March 27, 2020 at 3:41:17 AM UTC+5:30, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > I tend to take the same approach. > > I don't think there is anything about this in the student instructions > on the wiki, but we can add something. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 4:07 PM Oscar Benjamin > <oscar.j...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Over the past couple of months I have lost count of the number of > > times that I have been emailed off-list by people interested in > > applying for GSOC with sympy this year. > > > > It's excellent that so many people are interested but I have not > > replied to *any* off-list emails and I don't intend to. This is > > because I don't want to give private help to any particular applicant > > at the expense of others. Anyone who wants to publicly discuss ideas > > or post their proposal and ask for feedback is welcome to do so. I am > > happy to give guidance or provide feedback in an open forum where > > everyone can see what I have to say. If I don't respond then please > > understand that that is because my time is limited and many of the > > proposals are for projects that I would not be able to mentor. > > > > Is there any guidance around off-list communication with GSOC > > applicants on the wiki? > > > > Oscar > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sympy" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sy...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxRd4ZGy5b7YjhktTL_a68Ybs_OB3818hoqn7Wpo15K-Pw%40mail.gmail.com. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/993d2b25-7b7c-4a35-807a-51ed1aa2d37f%40googlegroups.com.
