On 2011-03-24 03:17, Dave Pawson wrote:
So they are using the docbook ideas page in preference to the
submissions? How weird.
No, these are two things. The first stage for Google is to choose
mentoring organizations. The second stage is for chosen mentoring
organizations to submits project proposals, based on which it gets
allocated a certain number of slots.
We were in the first stage, where Google evaluates potential mentoring
organizations. They use a set of criteria to figure out which ones to
pick, and it seems they used the "ideas" pages as a metric to get a
sense of a) what kind of projects organizations offered, and b) how well
an organization supported its students. In other words, this was about
the organization, not about specific proposals.
(Ironically, as David pointed out, we have had discussions in the past
about how best to encourage student participation, and one of the themes
that was even discussed at last year's mentor summit was to *not*
over-specify ideas, as a means to require students to put more effort
into putting together a proposal. That would allow organizations to
better evaluate prospective students, reducing the risk of projects
being abandoned.)
Stefan
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