For Mahout, I am not mentoring this year because none of the three GSoC projects I have mentored have come close to succeeding. (I am assured it's not my fault.) Of the 5 Mahout mentored last year, I can only point to 1 that was usefully successful.
Is anyone else's historical success rate low or is it just me? This could explain fewer mentors, helping encourage fewer projects, meaning fewer applications. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Kathey Marsden <kmarsdende...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > In the small factors category, in Derby project we have something of a > shortage of mentors this year, which I think is reducing the number of > applications. I am hoping we will get at least one more coming in from a > student that has been active and has said he wants to apply. > > The reduced number of mentors, I think, is just mostly because of vacation > conflicts.
