Which ideas would you remove? Aaron Meurer
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Ondrej, > > You say: > > "since most of them were empty, and > the point is that if the idea (which must be better developed by the > student anyway) is good, then we will find a mentor for the student." > > I don't see how that works. I think we need to have potential mentors listed > for each idea so that students know the reality. I personally don't plan on > mentoring any projects I don't understand. I don't think it is realistic > that we can find mentors for any project that students prefer. We've already > seen in the past that mentors are not willing to mentor just anything. > > I think if projects don't have a potential mentor listed we should remove it > from the ideas page for this year. > > I'd like to do this if there is no objection. > > Jason > > > Jason > moorepants.info > +01 530-601-9791 > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Ondřej Čertík <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I plan to work on the PyDy and SymPy stuff tomorrow and Friday. I think >> > we >> > really need to give our applications a makeover if we want to get >> > selected >> > (as mentioned about the ideas page). Does anyone agree with that? I have >> > worries that we won't be selected again. >> >> We definitely need to rework our ideas page. Just make sure the link >> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/gsoc-2016-ideas#potential-mentors >> always work, since we reference it from the application. >> >> I started by removing the "potential mentors" from each idea (only >> kept the overall list at the top), since most of them were empty, and >> the point is that if the idea (which must be better developed by the >> student anyway) is good, then we will find a mentor for the student. >> >> Ondrej >> >> P.S. Jason, if you meant that you would start working on the >> application on Friday, then I think that's not a good plan, given that >> Friday is the deadline. ;) >> >> -- >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADDwiVB4%2BhD4mnrpgDD8gHJsggUouPa9LwL6ERuJrtNEx-054w%40mail.gmail.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1Ai6TE0J7x5uw8WEbqzSr1np479Hp4XfA8Q5xdZjmS8awA%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6%2BjGSj-v%2BPR7UQa3v615EjHj-qTw5AkvaGegG%2BzQsEnMw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
