Re: [GSOC] Please review Application

2011-03-11 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: > Hi there, > > For the Co-Admins: >  *  I need your Id's to add it to the  Application > Its my initials: ra -Rahul > For the "last Admins": >  * Do we have some stats about how many students pass last year etc ? > > > > I prepared this fo

Re: GSOC application for ASF / last steps

2011-03-01 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Norman Maurer wrote: > Hi there, > > I plan to submit the application for GSOC within this week. I see we > have three possible co-admins: Rahul Akolkar, Uli Stärk, Mladen Turk. > So all of you are still happy with helping out ? Or someone wants

Re: GSoC is go...

2011-01-25 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 25 Jan 2011, at 06:33, Norman Maurer wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I would volunteer to act as admin. > > Wonderful. I'll be pleased to co-admin again. Room for one more. > I can help, if we still need one more. -Rahul

Re: Mentor summit

2010-10-02 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Rahul Akolkar > wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Rahul Akolkar >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Noirin Shirley wrote: >>>> I don't

Re: Mentor summit

2010-09-22 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Noirin Shirley wrote: >> I don't see a reply from Stefan, and Carol wants the attending mentors >> to sign up ASAP at this point, so Rahul, I think the spot is yours :-) >> >

Re: Mentor summit

2010-09-22 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Noirin Shirley wrote: > I don't see a reply from Stefan, and Carol wants the attending mentors > to sign up ASAP at this point, so Rahul, I think the spot is yours :-) > Cool, will sign up in a few. > Please let me know if you need any information to sign up. >

Re: Mentor summit

2010-09-12 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> We ought to agree who is going to the mentor summit. >> >> I'll withdraw from the race since I've been before and my oct/nov schedule >> is already silly. >> >> Noirin is going, as

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-09-04 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Added to confluence group > Changes discussed in this thread (other than PPMCs bit) reflected in v3 of mentee ranking process page. -Rahul > On 03/09/2010 15:03, Rahul Akolkar wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at

Re: [GSoC] Mentor summit attendees

2010-09-03 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 03/09/2010 15:18, Rahul Akolkar wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > > ... > >> Heres the net of what I'm saying. Assume same logistics of mentor >> summit for next 5

Re: [GSoC] Mentor summit attendees

2010-09-03 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> On 02/09/2010 21:19, Noirin Shirley wrote: >>> >>> I'm interested, and haven't been before, for whatever that's worth :-) >> >> And as this years lead admin I believe you should get

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-09-03 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 02/09/2010 17:21, Rahul Akolkar wrote: >> >> Now that this year's program is done and there seemed to be consensus >> on the items below when discussed, can we get the proposals below >> reflected on the m

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-09-02 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Kathey Marsden wrote: > On 9/2/2010 9:21 AM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: > > Original Ideas are good > > === > > Past experience has shown that if a student proposes their own idea and it > is accepted the student is going to

[GSoC] Mentor summit attendees

2010-09-02 Thread Rahul Akolkar
Have we decided who the two attendees are from the ASF? As it happens, I will be in Sunnyvale that week (and FWIW, I mentored two students this year). -Rahul

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-09-02 Thread Rahul Akolkar
Now that this year's program is done and there seemed to be consensus on the items below when discussed, can we get the proposals below reflected on the mentee ranking page [1] and other places as appropriate? I don't have a cwiki account, but that can be fixed if needed :-) -Rahul [1] http://co

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-04-24 Thread Rahul Akolkar
t; as it were, a limited set of available itches, should not be penalized. If > it's the later, than those TLPs are at an unavoidable disadvantage. > > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Kathey Marsden > wrote: > >> On 4/23/2010 4:14 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: >&

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-04-23 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Kathey Marsden wrote: > On 4/23/2010 4:14 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote: >> >> The ability to formulate a GSoC proposal and attract mentor(s) for it >> must be rewarded. > > If original just means not going for one of the ideas  proposed

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-04-23 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Kathey Marsden wrote: > On 4/22/2010 9:26 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: >> >> 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 l

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-04-23 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kathey Marsden wrote: > On 4/22/2010 7:24 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> >> Original Ideas are good >> === >> >> Past experience has shown that if a student proposes their own idea and it >> is accepted the student is going to be strong. >> >> PRO

Re: Reviewing the evaluation process

2010-04-23 Thread Rahul Akolkar
+1 to all below. -Rahul On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:24 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 disagr

GSoC mentee evaluation: Original ideas

2010-04-15 Thread Rahul Akolkar
Suggestion for next year, so I think d...@community is appropriate. Perhaps some folks on code-awards@ may have input, so CC'ed that list. I think those mentees that suggest original ideas for GSoC projects and manage to get committers interested in mentoring those original project ideas should be

Re: New Admin ranking feature in GSoC webapp

2010-04-11 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > I just discovered a new feature in the Google Webapp this year: > > --- From GSoC Manual --- > > Organization Admins Only - Assigning an Application a Rank > An organization administrator also has the ability to manipulate the rank of > a part