Mark, After two GSoC years I don't really think any formal rule would work.
My rules follow: 1. The student should be able to work by herself and motivate himself. Pressure from a mentor doesn't work anyway. 2. The mentor's task should be very easy (still, it should require coding). 3. Skype interview is a nice thing. Signing ACQ/ICLA are minor issue compared to the fact that majority of students don't even know that cut&paste should not be used in their code. There is a big gap between signing and understanding, especially if you hardly understand English. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Mark Hindess <mark.hind...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > In message <201001270826.o0r8qq0a014...@d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>, > Mark Hindess writes: >> >> In message <94d710af1001261726o9085b91jcef0d7dd95b2c...@mail.gmail.com>, >> Sean Qiu writes: >> > >> > Have someone notice this? Seems that it is time to dicuss our >> > potential proposals. >> >> Yes. Indeed. We should use the wiki again. >> >> I also think we should consider our selection criteria. My experience >> has been that: >> >> 1) there tends not to be much to distinguish proposals (once you've >> excluded the rushed/poor proposals choosing between the rest is >> difficult) >> >> 2) there hasn't been as much interaction as I would like (I'd go as >> far as suggesting that a number of failed projects would have passed >> if they had done better at this) >> >> I'd like to try to tackle this by only considering proposals from >> individuals that have already had a patch integrated. > > I forgot to mention that I think we should also only consider proposals > from individuals that have already filed an ACQ/ICLA. > >> What do others think? (I'm particularly interested to know what past >> applicants think.) > > I'd still like to know what others thing about my added restrictions? > Of course, it doesn't really matter if people disagree with me since > as a mentor I can impose conditions on the types of students I want > to mentor but if possible I'd like to get broad agreement to make it > consistent across all the Harmony proposed projects. > > Regards, > Mark. > > > -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://www.telecom-express.ru/ http://harmony.apache.org/ http://www.expressaas.com/ http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/
