On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > The application period for organizations has opened for GSoC 2013. The > deadline is next friday, the 29th (http://goo.gl/xmQMJ). > > I have updated the wiki page > (https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2013-Ideas) with this year's > questions. I have not yet gone through the answers, except for trivial > moving of stuff that changed in the questions this year. If you have > time, please go through and make whatever edits you see fit. > > Two things of note: > > - For PyDy, what are your plans? We can vouch for you (see the last > question), so we need to know. > > - The only significant change to the questions from last year is that > last year there was the question, "What steps will you take to > encourage students to interact with your project's community before, > during and after the program?", and this year there are the two > questions, "What steps will you take to encourage students to interact > with your project's community before and during the program?" and > "What will you do to encourage that your accepted students stick with > the project after Google Summer of Code concludes?". In other words, > the "after the program" part is now a separate question. I therefore > think it's safe to assume that Google is putting a focus on this > aspect this year. So I think we should expand that part, and also > discuss here some things that we can do to improve in that area > (because we're not perfect). > > Does anyone want to gather some statistics on this? My experience is > that each year, about 50% of the students disappear after GSoC, 25% > stay around for a few months, and about 25% stay around for longer. > > On thing that I think is important for this is the stuff that is > discussed in the answer to the first question, namely, making sure > that the students are active in the community. In 2011, we made a > conscious effort do to this for all students, so my hope is that the > statistics will show this. Based on what I remember, it did make a > huge difference.
In 2012, we had 5 students. Based on commits in sympy, two students had last commit in August, the other two in December (so they stuck for a few months), and one stayed till now. In 2011, we had 9 students. 2 had last commits in August, 2 in october or september, and the rest 5 stayed pretty much till now. Aaron, could you write what things we did differently in 2011? We need to put this into the application. Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
