[OLPC-GSoC] Number of SoC projects requested by OLPC
Shikhar
shikhar at schmizz.net
Sat Apr 19 09:37:43 EDT 2008
No actually, students getting to know of the number of slots is quite
okay; from what I've seen on #gsoc and Leslie's responses. People want
to know and it gets known and the organizations are not better or worse
off for it. Definite acceptance/rejection is of course not something
students are supposed to know...
Cheers,
Shikhar
Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote:
> A warning:
>
> I know we're all anxious to know how many slots OLPC will get. But
> just note the following message from Google Summer of Code Discuss
> <http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss?hl=en> :
>
> "Mentors: To tell anyone they are accepted until they have been marked
> as ssuch on the webapp, before the appointed day, is one of the sure
> ways to make your organization -not- be invited back in subsequent
> years and to see your allocations reduced to 0."
>
> I assume that also goes for any other promise they can't keep, like
> "we are guaranteed to get at least 8 slots this year." It's
> understandable, since Google will end up taking some of the blame for
> any broken promises.
>
> So, we can ask for vaguely-worded encouragement or bad news, but until
> Monday, we should not even ask for anything definite.
>
> Shameless <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bityi/GSoC>ly y'rs,
> Jameson
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Bobby Powers <bobbypowers at gmail.com
> <mailto:bobbypowers at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> thanks SJ, that sounds great. I know for myself
> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OpenSim> that I'd like to work on this
> over the summer to some extent and into next year if I get in or
> not, and having some tie to OLPC and a little green XO over the
> summer (for 2 conferences in the System Dynamics field, one
> exclusively for K-12 educators) would go a long way towards
> getting more funding and accelerating my efforts in the fall and
> beyond. I'm sure others have similar feelings!
>
> yours,
> Bobby Powers
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com
> <mailto:meta.sj at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:dirakx at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn
> <jquinn at cs.oberlin.edu <mailto:jquinn at cs.oberlin.edu>> wrote:
>
> On 4/14/08, *Patrick Dubroy* <pdubroy at gmail.com
> <mailto: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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