[Council] Re: Soc deadline etc.

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> I've completed a first pass through all the applications provided so
> far, by which I mean that I've read them and marked as -2 anything that
> I thought didn't have a snowball's chance of being approved. I gave +1
> to everything else (about 25 apps), which doesn't mean I think those are
> great, but they at least met some minimal standards of interest and
> coherence. Anything that comes in over the next 24 hours will show up as
> rated zero. Feel free to jump in and start rating things (go to
> http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_home.html and click on "Rank
> Applications"). Ian and Jack have yet to fill out the mentor form at the
> URLs I sent via IM, but we have plenty of time to finish our ratings so
> don't panic.
> 
> I'll look at this again on Wednesday or tomorrow if I can find WiFi
> during my travels.

Done. We now have ~40 applications that meet minimal standards. We need
to weed that down to ~10. Have at it. (Jack, you have yet to register.)
I'll re-read these 40 over the next few days. A few guidelines I will be
using (YMMV):

1. These people are applying for a summer job. If they can't describe
what they are trying to accomplish and why they think they can
accomplish it, then we need to ask them to improve their application
(there's an option for that) or mod them down.

2. This is not just an adventure, it's a job. This year I think we'll
require more organization such as weekly status reports on the wiki. If
people don't seem organized enough for that, mod them down. So I am
looking for things like some awareness that there's a process to coding
(architecture, design, potential obstacles, how they'll make it all
happen, testing and documentation, etc.).

3. The point is to learn about open source, not solve the world's (or
Jabber community's) most important problems. But we need to have mentors
for people. So if someone comes up with a cool project but we don't know
anyone who could possiblly mentor the person, that could be a problem.

More soon.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml

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