[OLPC-GSoC] Number of SoC projects requested by OLPC

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hi all

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn <jquinn at cs.oberlin.edu>
wrote:

> On 4/14/08, Patrick Dubroy <pdubroy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > How many SoC slots have been requested by OLPC? In the SoC web app,
> > the "likely to be accepted" line seems to be around 30 applications.
> > However, a friend  who is signed up to mentor for another organization
> > said that Leslie Hawthorn sent a message to one of the SoC lists
> > saying that OLPC has only asked for 4 slots. Is this true? If so, that
> > seems awfully low.
>
>
>
> I am just another student. However, until SJ replies, I can fill in the
> version of the rumor that I heard: Google has some magic AI which watches
> the traffic through the GSoC interface and guesses how many slots each
> organization is going to get. That AI is what came up with the number 4,
> which OLPC agrees is too low. It seems probable that when a human at Google
> reviews the situation, they will agree that the number is low.
>

yep it seems that the  AI script is giving the 4 number atm , anyway there
are more or less 60 more slots remaining to be given by google...so we will
see.


> Of course, "something more than 4" is still a pretty wide range, and all
> of us students are dying to know about how many slots OLPC expects. Just
> going through the wiki category<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:GSoC_proposals>,
> I can count at least 10 applications besides my own<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bityi/GSoC>that appear to me to be very well-thought-out and useful to OLPC; and I know
> that there are 3 or 4 that are not on the wiki that SJ has mentioned in
> lists of interesting projects. Based on that, I'd say it would be a real
> pity if there were fewer than 8, and probably 13 would plenty, so if I were
> voting the number should be somewhere in there. (speaking as a teacher, the
> standouts are ANN, Coding Tutor, Customizing Moodle, DrGeo, Elements, Garden
> Activity, and Water Wonders; there are others which might be great but the
> wiki pages are not clear enough for me to tell, and several others which are
> not oriented towards the classroom or have duplicate applications where I do
> not comment).
>
> I would love to hear something more definite from SJ on the numbers.
>
> Jameson
>
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Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
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