Critical bug fixed

[David MacQuigg]

Abhishek found a clever solution to our issue with the problem
descriptions getting munged into one unreadable paragraph. See our
issue tracker http://code.google.com/p/pykata/issues/detail?id=1&can=1
The problem has been that even if we turn OFF paragraph formatting, we
still get multiple spaces reduced to one, which meant we could not
have any tabular data in an exercise like "elifants".

See the TEMPLATE problem for nice examples of any formatting you will
need. Review your own problems to make sure the new formatting looks
good. Add any other problems you think would be good examples. PSF
will be judging our site soon to decide if we get funding for Google
Summer of Code. Let's make it look great.

[Andre Roberge]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, David MacQuigg <macq...@box67.com> wrote:

SNIP
 

  PSF
will be judging our site soon to decide if we get funding for Google
Summer of Code.

What do you mean by this?  I am bit surprised ... I have not seen any discussion on the PSF mentor list about this ... and, to my knowledge, this is not how GSoC projects are ranked/judged.

Did you get some communication about this?

André


 

 Let's make it look great.

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[David MacQuigg]

All I have heard is that Google awards a number of slots to PSF, and PSF
decides which students and projects get the awards. I'm surprised there
isn't more info on this process. I looked at last years page
http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2009, hoping to find some
examples, or at least a list of which projects were chosen. Is that
available anywhere? All I see is a list of the proposals, much like
what we have this year.

-- Dave

Andre Roberge wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, David MacQuigg <macq...@box67.com
> <mailto:macq...@box67.com>> wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
>
> PSF
> will be judging our site soon to decide if we get funding for Google
> Summer of Code.
>
>
> What do you mean by this? I am bit surprised ... I have not seen any
> discussion on the PSF mentor list about this ... and, to my knowledge,
> this is not how GSoC projects are ranked/judged.
>
> Did you get some communication about this?
>

> Andr�
>

[Andre Roberge]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:36 PM, David MacQuigg <macq...@box67.com> wrote:

All I have heard is that Google awards a number of slots to PSF, and PSF decides which students and projects get the awards.  I'm surprised there isn't more info on this process.  I looked at last years page http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2009, hoping to find some examples, or at least a list of which projects were chosen.  Is that available anywhere?  All I see is a list of the proposals, much like what we have this year.

There is a list of projects that were accepted ... but I don't remember where it is.    The process has varied a little bit, from year to year. The way it works if roughly like this:

1. Potential mentors register with the PSF.  They are either people that are "known", or that other "known" people can vouch for.  For instance, in case Andy is not recognized (and he should be) by the administrators, I will vouch for him.
2. There is sometimes a second step for recognition: the project has to be recognized as useful to the Python community; this is going to be a no-brainer for Pykata.
3. The number of slots given to an organization is proportional to the number of eligible applicants.  So, it is useful to encourage many students to apply ... and, given the success rate, I usually tell every student that communicate with me to apply to more than one project.
4. In the past, projects were distributed somewhat equally amongst all projects that were deemed suitable and for which there was a mentor identified.  So, if the process was to be like it was last year, with a similar ratio of students/projects applying to the PSF, Pykata would almost be guaranteed to have one student.

This year, the emphasis is going to be on Py3k.  I don't think that one can make the case that Pykata is entirely relevant ... yet.  However, I don't see that as a big hurdle; as soon as GAE can work on Py3k, Pykata can be ported quickly and will be very relevant.

I hope that this helps...   (disclaimer: this is just my opinion based on observations as a mentor, not as an admin).

André

-- Dave

Andre Roberge wrote:

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, David MacQuigg <macq...@box67.com <mailto:macq...@box67.com>> wrote:

SNIP
 
     PSF
   will be judging our site soon to decide if we get funding for Google
   Summer of Code.

What do you mean by this?  I am bit surprised ... I have not seen any discussion on the PSF mentor list about this ... and, to my knowledge, this is not how GSoC projects are ranked/judged.

Did you get some communication about this?

André