Hi Arindam, On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Arindam Padhy <[email protected]> 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. > So this is about https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90238#1110579 I have asked the mentor for more details. Yaron has a very good track as a mentor of students that are indeed strongs and complete their projects, but I also see your point. The replies of my colleagues, all with mentor/intern experience, are very valid as well. While this approach might have this problem, the frequent alternative (not to say anything for fairness, even when you have already a very strong candidate) generates a lot of extra work to candidates with less options in that exact project. Meanwhile, these candidates might be missing good opportunities in other projects still looking for candidates... and in this sense it is also fair to warn them and encourage them to focus in other projects where they might have better chances. While we cannot be certain about measuring the fairness of each approach, I can assure you that the Wikimedia mentors and community all go an extra mile or two with a process that enforces transparency and public participation well beyond GSoC's requirements. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
