i wish good luck and success to the elected students. the others don't need to be upset or anything, if you wish to contribute to pyramid, just fork it. let us hear what you are doing.
On Apr 26, 12:40 am, Chris McDonough <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/na... > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/jo... > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/jg... > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/ja... > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/ja... > > 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 > (seehttp://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.
