how an you can you know before student application form deadline that there is huge list of applicants.. and i have not seen anyone showing any interest or giving any contribution.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Arindam, > > On Sat, 2015-03-21 at 00:50 +0530, Arindam Padhy wrote: > > How can project ideas being assigned to a student before all students > have > > submitted their proposal. i too wanted to put my proposal but my mentor > > says he has already selected one student for this project. this is not > fair. > > In general, organizations have a limited number of slots and usually get > more applications than slots. > If there are great candidates who have expressed interest in a task and > have already gotten involved (e.g. by providing an initial contribution) > it might happen that a mentor already has one or more strong preferences > (I don't know the exact wording of the conversation that you had). > > So from a different angle, it might be even fair to tell someone that > their chances are low. Depends on what people consider "fair". :) > > Are there any further tasks that interest you? > > In any case, I hope that you will find a great task and mentor! > > andre > -- > Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler > http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
