[gsoc17] Help sought on how to have community rank and vote on student proposals

[Niall Douglas]

Most unfortunately google have removed the ability for the Boost community to star rank proposals, and forced all the applications to be PDF files :(

I have 23 student proposal PDF files which need to be ranked by the community somehow into a preferential order. If they were not long detailed PDF files, this would be a lot easier.

I've been searching for a solution for many hours past my bedtime and I really need to sleep, if anyone on boost-steering has any viable idea on how to get dozens of Boost members to easily review lengthy PDF files with code and then rank them in order of quality, I am very very much interested to hear. We have a pressing time limit on this, just two weeks before we must decide and we usually let the community have a week to review and rank.

Regards,

Niall

[Rob Stewart]

I wonder if we can use EasyChair.

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[Niall Douglas]

EasyChair would have an annoying amount of work for me to extract a summary from each PDF file. But it's a good stopgap.

What I'd really like is some carousel of the PDF files which people can thumb up or thumb down, ideally with a commenting facility. And the landing page would display the proposals in ranked order.

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[Niall Douglas]

Ok I laboriously made a Google Form people can submit:

https://docs.google.com/a/boost.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1Mzg2S2cPjOaxw6kiJF2DoG1jAo3USja5nXjR_ROPCS7eIg/viewform

I've limited access to the above to users from here only for the time being. Please do give it a try and let me know if it is usable. Also, please do submit some test rankings so I can verify it works, I'll wipe them before making it public.


Finally, there is a data protection concern here. Before it was on Google to deal with that because they were the ones sharing personally identifying information. If we use the form above, it is on us, and we did not collect permission because Google does not allow us to.

So, to be frank, we are in a bind. We cannot show their applications to the public unhindered as it would leak personally identifying information.

What we will therefore need to do is to invite anyone wanting to rank proposals into the "Boost organisation". Is this doable, acceptable, and indeed wise?

Niall