Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 20, 2015, 09:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20150220094844.GB30127@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqpp94exb5.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:39:42AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >   - Matthieu, who also cited time constraints
> 
> Just to clarify: last year we were co-mentoring with Ram. I ended up
> having a lot of time and did most of the work (not blaming Ram, and I
> enjoyed the experience). I'm still motivated to co-mentor, but this time
> the co-mentoring has to be more balanced (or unballanced to the other
> mentor ;-) ).

Yes, but who is your co-mentor this year? :)

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> From your list, it seems we can target 1 or 2 slots. I'd say it's still
> worth applying, but if we don't find more mentors then perhaps it would
> make sense to say so explicitely in
> http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Ideas.html so that students looking for
> organization know that we'll have very few slots.

I don't mind doing 1 slot if that's what we have resources for. But if we have to say "eh, we do not really have enough mentors to support you", then I wonder if it is worth doing. They do not know how many people have applied, or how tight the competition is.

-Peff