I'm working on it now. Personally I'd remove any idea that doesn't have a champion mentor. But Ondrej didn't like that criteria (personal chat).
I just think the ideas page is too giant and messy. I think fewer targeted ideas that are carefully selected by us for importance and based on if we have a champion mentor would make things simpler for the students and result in better quality projects that will help move the project forward. Instead of an ideas page that has everything that anyone has ever thought of, we should structure it as "important projects". If we have very enterprising students, we could let them submit a proposal and see if we have an interested mentor that will "sponsor" it. Many other projects have very nice concise and orderly ideas pages that aren't just a huge massive brain dump. This looks way more professional in my opinion, not to mention easier to for the students to understand. I'm pushing some basic changes now to clean things up. I'll recommend some removals before removing anything. Jason Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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