Dear all, In the past, it seemed our approach was to try to take the best students regardless of what they proposed (whether their own idea or one extracted from our list). We would then accept as many as we could mentor. But this approach is often awkward, or has gotten more so over the years, because it doesn't align with the mentorship resources (quantity and desire).
I would support an approach where we first start with a number of mentors, then determine the number of projects, and those mentors draft the N ideas for that year that can be applied for. We don't even have to consider any other ideas. It is also true that we get more applicants for some projects than others. If we take the best applicant for that project, then we aren't necessarily taking the best applications from the whole pool. Should we accept the best applicants and assign them the projects or select the best per project? The LLM written proposals will grow again. I'm not sure what should be done about that. Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM Oscar Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are at the time of year where it seems that candidates are > interested in GSOC. Every year the same list of projects is rolled > over and I think that needs to change. Most of the ideas in the list > are effectively impossible for GSOC or don't have anyone who would > mentor them. Most of the ideas are not described in enough up to date > detail to be implementable even if they are otherwise suitable. > > This year we should not carry over any project ideas from previous > years and make a completely new GSOC ideas page with only ideas that > are fresh this year or that someone confirmed that they would at least > potentially be interested in supervising this year. Each idea should > clearly describe the current state and what the most immediate work to > be done is. > > Oscar > > -- > 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 view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxTwk%3DY0H02agwu6CN1PEzzC_uNm%3DJ2a%2BBH1QBs1Tk3F%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AhzW7Wcht7Ydh2O6eM_qoFYcfo8Ly_mAjaum7usq7tDmQ%40mail.gmail.com.
