On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand that there is no Google mandate on how organizations divvy up > their slots. I'm just curious how NumFOCUS plans to handle all of this. From > my understanding, Raniere is part of Software Carpentry (which is fiscally > sponsored by NumFOCUS) and instead of applying to GSoC as Software Carpentry > he decided and got permission to apply using the NumFOCUS name. For example, > the materials are hosted under the SWC github account, not NumFOCUS's, and > the only ideas listed seem to be from Software Carpentry > (https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015). Actually, I'm not sure what the > two ecology related projects are and what NumFOCUS sub-org they belong to. > > It would be nice to understand how things will work with NumFOCUS before we > start sending students in that direction. > >> That is totally up to NumFOCUS to decide. > > > But who are the decision makers for GSoC at NumFOCUS? Aren't we part of > NumFOCUS just like Rainere and Software Carpentry are? Btw, I understand > that Raniere put together the application, did all the work, and ultimately > won the game so maybe that means that we have no formal say. > > I'll stop beating this dead horse now. Ondrej, you may like the idea of > everything being informal at this level, but there are lots of people that > are quite invested in GSoC slots and informalities are bound to result with > hurt feelings.
Yes, I agree, informality in this situation is a recipe for confusion and mistrust. Best, Matthew -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAH6Pt5q2m5YvMKY-chvMLj%3DZov-vTESTbMuEZhbKhZbz2LFnXg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
