On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 10:22 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > So it's better to only have 15 students working on important things, > rather than having these 15 students, plus 10 others working on less > important things?
Nope! But maybe with a better selection process we could instead end up with 20 students working on important things, with 5 working on less important things, and hopefully 0 on projects that don't match GNOME's priorities at all. > > Yes! Within reason; we don't want to push students to work on projects > > they're not interested in, but we also don't want to fund them to work > > on something that's largely tangential to our interests. > > Why not? If it's the preferred student project, if the maintainers of > the associated module is ok with the project, isn't it good to have > students learn about our platform in general (gtk+, ...) even though > they are not working on a core GNOME module? We try to find some kind of > balance between the various projects, we sometimes try to push students > to work on core projects rather than the alternatives, but sometimes > students are just not interested, or the core projects > maintainers/contributors cannot mentor any/more students. Well at the end of the day, the number of students we accept is going to be based on how many Google allows us to, but I'd rather such projects be prioritized lower than others.
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