R GSoC 2013 slots, voting, process

[Brian G. Peterson]

R has been granted a record 22 slots for this year's GSoC.

This shows a tremendous amount of trust and support from Google, and
puts R among the top slot recipients along with huge organizations like
Apache, KDE, GNOME, GNU, and Linux.

Now, we have to demonstrate that we're worthy of that trust and support.

I've placed some guidelines and specific action items below.

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For Students:

Between now and May 22, the final date of proposal review and scoring,
keep an eye on your application for public comments from R mentors
seeing clarification or more information. This may be an opportunity
for you to add more detail either in a public comment on your
application or on the application itself. I encourage you to be as
prompt and thorough as possible in these responses, as the application
process isn't really over until R's decisions are sent to Google.


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For Mentors:

Much of this is repetition of things I've already said, but we don't yet
have anything approaching full participation of the mentors for the
proposed projects, so please read this and do everything you're being
asked to do.

The R project has until May 22nd to make final Accept/Reject indications
on melange. We can't act like our students and wait until the last day.
We need mentors signed up on melange, and we need votes. Now.

First, mentors on melange. If you or any of your proposed co-mentors
are not on melange, get there. I've sent several messages about this,
and only gotten a few more people signed up.

If you can't see this link:

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/dashboard/google/gsoc2013#proposals_submitted

you are not signed up as a mentor, and need to correct that.

If you are having difficulty, email me, and I'll help.

Next, agreeing to mentor 'your' project(s). If you are looking at the
application for one of 'your' projects, we need all the listed mentors
to flip the slider on the left hand side of the screen that says 'Wish
to Mentor' to YES. This makes the R project administrators jobs easier
when we assign a primary mentor to a project. No project can get funded
by Google without a primary mentor assigned. I will start marking
projects as REJECT in Melange on Monday May 13th if there is no mentor
name under 'Wish to Mentor' on Melange. we can reverse that decision up
till May 22nd, but we need to sort and reject at least 1/3 of our
student applicants, and this is one way to do that.

Finally, voting and commenting.

R is a set of collaborative projects. The R community is stronger
because of the feedback and support we give each other.

Please make *public* comments if you want the student to respond.
Comments are private by default.

Make private comments if you want to share your analysis of the
application with the other R mentors, or comment on your vote.

If you've got experience or insight in the field of the application,
*please share it* in the comments, to help educate other mentors and
help shape the discussions over applications.

Please Comment and vote on all project applications that you feel
qualified to do so on. If it is out of your field, I'd ask that you
only down-rate (and comment on) an application if it is clearly
perfunctory, of low quality, or you see other reasons to be seriously
concerned about the quality of the application or the plan. Please share
your reasons for a down-vote in a private comment. Experience from
prior years suggests that the best applications consistently rise to the
top of the pile, and the least worthy sink to the bottom, but any
information you can provide on the interface between Accept/Reject will
help us make decisions.

The R program administrators will need to start making preliminary
decisions soon. Please help us by taking a pass through all the
applications where you feel you may have something to contribute NOW.
I'd like to have an idea of the ranking by *Monday May 13th*.

On Monday, May 13th, we'll start making decisions about possibly
releasing slots back to Google. Google has asked that projects who do
not have the mentors or applications to use all their slots to release
those slots back to the pool expeditiously.

We still have a lot of work to do before selection is done, and we need
the help of all the R GSoC mentors and students to be successful.

Regards,

- Brian

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[Qiang Kou]

Thank you for your work.

I am a student and receive some suggestions from mentors, however, it seems that I cannot edit my proposal or reply the comments.

What should I do now? Just add some comments as public?

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[Brian G. Peterson]

On 05/08/2013 09:19 AM, Qiang Kou wrote:
> Thank you for your work.
> I am a student and receive some suggestions from mentors, however, it
> seems that I cannot edit my proposal or reply the comments.
>
> What should I do now? Just add some comments as public?

Add public comments, or send me the link to your proposal and I can
re-enable editing of the proposal, depending on the degree of editing
you need to do.

Regards,

[Qiang Kou]

Thank you for your reply.

I will send you the link later personally, if I really need to edit it.

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