dsimcha wrote: > On 4/8/2011 2:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >On 4/8/11 11:35 AM, Luca Boasso wrote: > >>Who is going to interview the students? > >>Will the mentor interested in the student be the interviewer or a > >>selected group of the community? > > > >I plan to interview qualified candidates personally. An interested > >mentor could choose to hold the interview in addition or instead of me. > > > >Andrei > > > > Looks like we got a ton of proposals at the last minute, so we'll > probably need to be selective. A few questions: > > 1. Are you still seriously going to interview every candidate personally? > > 2. What, if anything, is Google's role in deciding what proposals > get accepted?
Google will only determine the number of slots. It's up to the project to allocate these to the students. > 3. Is there any point in the mentors reviewing the proposals before > we know what makes the interview cut? > > 4. Is each mentor supposed to review all of the proposals, or just > the ones in his/her domain that he/she feels qualified to evaluate? > For example, I feel very comfortable reviewing a proposal about > garbage collection or containers, but I would have little clue what > I was doing if I reviewed an XML proposal. I'd be able to tell a > mediocre XML proposal from a terrible one, but not a great one from > a mediocre one. I'll guess you are not expected to review a proposal you're not interested in. It make no sense. Jens
