On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Agreed, I don't like informality either. I was just trying to clarify few things that I knew and point out the responsibility. The rest is for Raniere to clarify. Jason, you definitely raise good questions. 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADDwiVDjWzJTHA%3D5agERJc5EF5jLZizBBB9LETtNJy2ovwjvOg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
