Congratulations to Joe Dallago and Joel Bohman for being selected by Google for the 2011 Google Summer of Code for the Pylons Project!
Apologies to the folks who applied but didn't receive a sponsorship: Julisz Gonera, Joe R. Nassimian, and Chen Tao. This was a tough decision for us, so I'll explain how we made a decision to nominate students for consideration to the PSF (which we did; these nominations were for the accepted students). We have a maximum of two "internal" slots. That's the greatest number of students the Pylons Project mentors feel competent to mentor (using six mentors, none is full-time; mentors are volunteers with day jobs, etc). We weren't promised any particular number of slots from Google or the PSF. For example, might have gotten a single slot or no slots. But, due to mentor constraints, in the unlikely case, however, if the PSF had given us, say 3 slots, we would likely give one back, because we can't really handle more than 2. We had to tell Google and the PSF *which* two students that applied we'd be willing to mentor instead of just telling them "we'll mentor 2 students and select them later" In order to do so, we held an internal "Pylons Project" election amongst mentors to try to select these two slots. Here was our voting methodology (out of six mentors, five mentors reviewed proposals and cast votes, one mentor abstained). My email to mentors: """ We've received five applications from potential GSOC students: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/nassimian/2001 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/joelboh/1 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/jgonera/1 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/jayd3e/1 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/jagt/1 All of the applications are for porting Pyramid and its dependencies to Python 3. We need to choose two students from the applicants that we feel comfortable mentoring. I'd like to choose who we'll mentor by casting two ranked votes. We'll use the choices made (and the ranking) to select "the best" two (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote). The ballot looks like so: [ ] nassimian [ ] joelboh [ ] jgonera [ ] jayd3e [ ] jagt Selection really isn't easy. Although I've talked with some of them in IRC and on the maillist, I still have no super-strong sense of which of these students would be better for the task based on previous interaction. I'm basing my own votes on a combination of a comparison of applications (which application has better focus, which application explains the process better, which application indicates previous experience in Python) and personal instinct. Could each of you provide ranked choices (select two, and rank them)? If anyone has any questions for a student before voting, please comment on their application and ask for specifics directly. """ Once all the votes were cast, election was done per Single Transferable Vote methology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote ) . The votes were cast as follows ( ('firstchoice', 'secondchoice') ): ('joelboh', 'jgonera'), ('jayd3e', 'jgonera'), ('jgonera', 'jayd3e'), ('joelboh', 'jayd3e'), ('jay3de', 'joelboh'), One mentor abstained. As per "the Droop quota", 2 votes are required for immediate election: votes_required_to_win = (numvoters / (seats_to_fill+1)) + 1 votes_required_to_win = (5 / (2 +1)) + 1 == 2 In the first round, we count up each voter's first choice: nassimian: 0 joelboh: 2 jgonera: 1 jayd3e: 2 jagt: 0 joelboh is elected with 2 votes, as it is equal to the 2 votes required to win. jayd3e is elected with 2 votes, as it is equal to the 2 votes required to win. All slots are filled, the remainder of the candidates cannot be elected. This was the process we used to select candidates internally that we nominated as "mentorable" to Google. In any case, this is how we made the decision. I know it's no consolation to those who lost, but at least it explains how we came to the decision. If folks who lost need more information, please email me directly. Thanks to everyone who applied, and congratulations to the winners. I'll be trying to send out some coordination details within a couple of days. - C -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
