GSoC students: please read
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. Cheers, Ralf
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Hi Ralf, Is there a centralized place for non-mentors to view proposals and give feedback? Thanks, Stephan
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Hi Ralf,
Is there a centralized place for non-mentors to view proposals and give feedback?
Hi Stephan, there isn't really. All students post their drafts to the mailing list, where they can get feedback. They're free to keep that draft wherever they want - blogs, Github, StackEdit, ftp sites and more are all being used. The central overview is in Melange (the official GSoC tool), but that's not publicly accessible. Note that an overview of project ideas can be found at https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-project-ideas. If you're particularly interested in one or more of those, it should be easy to find back in the mailing list archive what students sent draft proposals for feedback. Your comments on individual proposals will be much appreciated. Cheers, Ralf
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Stephan, all, On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Hi Ralf,
Is there a centralized place for non-mentors to view proposals and give feedback?
Hi Stephan, there isn't really. All students post their drafts to the mailing list, where they can get feedback. They're free to keep that draft wherever they want - blogs, Github, StackEdit, ftp sites and more are all being used. The central overview is in Melange (the official GSoC tool), but that's not publicly accessible.
This was actually a very good idea, for next year we should require proposals on Github and added to an overview page. For this year it was a bit late to require all students to make this change, but I've compiled an overview of all proposals that have been submitted including links to Melange and the public drafts that students posted to the mailing lists: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-project-ideas#student-applications-... I hope that this helps. Everyone who is signed up as a mentor can comment (privately or publicly) in Melange, and everyone who's interested can now more easily find back the mailing list threads on this and comment there. Cheers, Ralf
Note that an overview of project ideas can be found at https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/GSoC-project-ideas. If you're particularly interested in one or more of those, it should be easy to find back in the mailing list archive what students sent draft proposals for feedback. Your comments on individual proposals will be much appreciated.
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@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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