On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Ondrej Certik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
As Aaron pointed to me offlist, here is a link that you should try to follow for the PSU apps: http://summer.cs.pdx.edu/propose Generally, try to follow the guidelines, that the particular organization provides. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
