GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

[Jens Mueller]

dsimcha wrote:
> 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?

Google will only determine the number of slots. It's up to the project
to allocate these to the students.

> 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.

I'll guess you are not expected to review a proposal you're not
interested in. It make no sense.

Jens