On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > To what extent should I tailor each application with respect to > explaining the math behind my application. For example, will the PSF > and PSU people know enough about differential to know that my > application (ordinary differential equations) and Priit's application > (partial differential equations) are really distinct proposals?
That's a good question. Definitely people at PSU will now, it's a university. I was actually an intern there couple years ago. At to PSF, I think most of them will now too, but you may put one or two sentences explaining the difference. In general, both PSF and PSU leaves me and other sympy mentors to rate all sympy applications and then depending on how many slots PSF and PSU gets, it assings certain amount of slots just to sympy. Then those applications that are above the threshold make it. So applying to two orgs increases your chances. I expect we'll most probably get one or two slots at PSF (maybe more if all sympy applications are really good!) and maybe one at PSU (last year we didn't get any, but the year before we got 1 --- it really depends on how good sympy's applications there are). In general, from my experience in last two years, every single application is being looked at, usually by several mentors and the rating was I think accurate both at PSF and PSU. > So far I have copied verbatim the PSF application. I will work on > fitting it to the PSU format and fixing both later tonight. Awesome. Please ping me to look over it. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" 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/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
