GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

[dsimcha]

On 4/8/2011 2:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 4/8/11 11:35 AM, Luca Boasso wrote:
>> Who is going to interview the students?
>> Will the mentor interested in the student be the interviewer or a
>> selected group of the community?
>
> I plan to interview qualified candidates personally. An interested
> mentor could choose to hold the interview in addition or instead of me.
>
> Andrei
>

Looks like we got a ton of proposals at the last minute, so we'll 
probably need to be selective.  A few questions:

1.  Are you still seriously going to interview every candidate personally?

2.  What, if anything, is Google's role in deciding what proposals get 
accepted?

3.  Is there any point in the mentors reviewing the proposals before we 
know what makes the interview cut?

4.  Is each mentor supposed to review all of the proposals, or just the 
ones in his/her domain that he/she feels qualified to evaluate?  For 
example, I feel very comfortable reviewing a proposal about garbage 
collection or containers, but I would have little clue what I was doing 
if I reviewed an XML proposal.  I'd be able to tell a mediocre XML 
proposal from a terrible one, but not a great one from a mediocre one.