I should add that our community is very active (occasionally even
aggressive) in providing feedback for ideas whether or not they came in as
part of GSoC. As we see it, the Summer of Code is just a one reason to
contribute among many others (a hobby, a full time job, religious commitment
to a lear
On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
> On the other hand, this has been the single criterion that has defined
> successful students in Mahout (which is definitely less standards driven).
>
> In Derby and similar projects, I think that this can be interpreted
> differently, but it sti
On the other hand, this has been the single criterion that has defined
successful students in Mahout (which is definitely less standards driven).
In Derby and similar projects, I think that this can be interpreted
differently, but it still is a useful ranking indicator. Within the set of
Derby ap
On 4/22/2010 7:24 AM, Ross Gardler wrote:
I'd like to make a few comments about issues that have arisen during
the evaluation process for GSoC. I'm going to give my opinion on each,
please treat this as lazy consensus - do speak up if you wish to
disagree or add more items:
Thank's Ross,
A few
I'd like to make a few comments about issues that have arisen during the
evaluation process for GSoC. I'm going to give my opinion on each,
please treat this as lazy consensus - do speak up if you wish to
disagree or add more items:
Not enough visibility of the process
Mark,
I agree with your comments.
With respect to:
> If these events are to be successful, then I think we need to work on
> continuity. We are thinking about getting students back, if we run the
> event again with some of the same projects, so that past students may
> learn more and also help
[I've removed concom from the CC as my reply is less relevant to them.)
In message <4bccbb5b.6000...@apache.org>, Ross Gardler writes:
>
> On Saturday I was at an event run by the Graduate Developer Community
> in London. I'm dropping this here so that concom/comdev are aware of
> some of the act
