Why Python?
David MacQuigg
some of our GSoC reviewers. The best short answer I can come up with,
while avoiding anything related to personal preference, is that it's
the closest thing we can find to pseudocode, the language used by
scientists when they want to express an idea involving computation.
I've added this statement to our Pykata.org homepage. What do you
think?
We have five student applicants for this summer, all of which I would
consider well qualified. Google will soon be deciding how many of
1000 awards go to PSF, and PSF will decide which of the 74 proposals
it has received will get an award. I think our project is clearly one
of the best, but there is always room for improvement. Let me know if
you can see anything needing a final polish.
Andre Roberge
> This is the question teachers will most likely ask, and perhaps even
> some of our GSoC reviewers.
PSF projects are going to be reviewed by PSF mentors. I doubt very
much anyone from that group would raise that question.
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> We have five student applicants for this summer, all of which I would
> consider well qualified. Google will soon be deciding how many of
> 1000 awards go to PSF, and PSF will decide which of the 74 proposals
> it has received will get an award. I think our project is clearly one
> of the best, but there is always room for improvement. Let me know if
> you can see anything needing a final polish.
Honestly, I don't think *anything* needs to be changed from the
project (PyKata) itself.
Just a data point: the first year that I got involved, a question was
raised on the edu-sig list by someone from the Mentor list asking if
anyone in the education sector was interested in mentoring some
education-related projects as no one on the PSF-Mentor list (at the
time) had any experience in the area. I had started working on a
prototype for what was to become Crunchy and volunteered. Through
sheer serendipity, I ended up mentoring Johannes Woolard who did a
truly fantastic job to help me get Crunchy off the ground. People
on the PSF-Mentor list, who did not know me at the time, respected my
judgment and were extremely supportive of having an education related
project.
Since then, every year, there has been a couple of education related
projects supported, with the total support of everyone on the
PSF-Mentor list as far as I could tell (except perhaps for one person
... but that's a different story).
There are some strong proposals for PyKata this year and I would be
extremely surprised if one of them was not accepted.
I don't want to sound "know it all" or anything like that, but I would
suggest to anyone on this list who is also on the PSF-Mentor list and
who has NOT been there before to simply sit back quietly for a while,
wait for the instructions from Arc Riley for ranking the various
projects.
Cheers,
André
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David MacQuigg
On Apr 9, 1:37 pm, Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, David MacQuigg <macqu...@box67.com> wrote:
> > This is the question teachers will most likely ask, and perhaps even
> > some of our GSoC reviewers.
>
> PSF projects are going to be reviewed by PSF mentors. I doubt very
> much anyone from that group would raise that question.
OK, I'm beginning to understand, from your statement, and from Carol
Smith's recent post to the mentors group, that the allocations to PSF
really are determined entirely by the number of non-spam proposals. I
had assumed there would be some kind of effort (statistical sampling,
whatever) to judge the quality of an organizations proposals. Nobody
has said explicitly that is not the case, but with all the discussion,
I think that would have been cleared up by now.
Since the total number of slots (1000) and the algorithm is the same
this year as last, that means we can expect the same number of slots
to PSF. How many did we get last year? Just curious.
Andre Roberge
It was 30 out of 112 eligible applications and 5 ineligible ones.
There are a few umbrella organizations, such as the PSF and the Apache
Foundation, that get a large number. Other organizations probably get
2-3 on average, with some getting only 1. I believe I read somewhere
that fewer organizations were accepted this year. I'm hoping that the
PSF will get at least 20 this year, with a couple for the education
sector ;-)