On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Geert Claes <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way to vote for ideas?
> >>
> >
> > be a mentor ;)
> >
> > Seriously. This is a complicated subject that I am not sure what to do.
> In
> > previous Squeak GSoC (2007 and 2008) only the mentors vote for the
> > project.
> > Suppose there were 20 projects, and Google gave Squeak 5 slots...then
> each
> > mentor vote their most interesting 5 projects...The 5 projects with more
> > votes, won.
> >
> > Letting only the mentors to vote have advantages and disadvantages.
> > Advantages is that there is a lot of people in the community that only
> > talk,
> > only ask, only "I would like". But few do. We don't want to feed those
> who
> > only talk.
> > On the other hand, there is a lot of people who works a lot, but they are
> > not mentors...so, it is a pity for them. But you cannot make that
> > difference.
> >
> > So, as you can see, it is not easy.
> >
> > If we get selected then we should review this.
> >
> > Mariano
> >
>
> Fair enough, even though I would like to be more actively involved, I
> simply
> don't have the time at the moment ... voting could give all mentors an
> indication of the popularity of their ideas though couldn't it?
>

Maybe that's a good idea. Let all the people vote, but just to show mentors
and co-mentors what the community wants. Then...is up to them to vote
whatever they want...

Thanks for the idea!!! I hope we have to discuss this topic (because it
would mean we were selected...)



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