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
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> 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. ;)
>>
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