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

[Samuel Klein]

We've been requesting 30 since they asked for an organization update last
week, and at least /part/ of the interface (the part that mentors see) was
updated with this information... I wrote to Leslie earlier today to find out
what was up with the overall allocation.

If we commit to having two mentors available for each application, which
leaves a healthy buffer of mentor-time, we could give detailed attention to
more than 15.  I pointed out that we have a few experts in their respective
projects/fields from outside of OLPC offering to mentor student work, which
is also a plus.

Meanwhile, I'm seeing if we can get XOs and automatic developer-program
enrollment for the best applications that we don't have the slots to accept
-- there are 40 projects that are truly interesting and should not be
dropped, and have at least one talented mentor offering to support them.

SJ

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <
dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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