Re: GSoC project idea page addition | question about slots

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Giuseppe
>
> Am 08.03.2016 um 09:47 schrieb Giuseppe Scrivano:
>> Hi Urs,
>>
>> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Dear GSoC coordinators,
>>>
>>> I am writing on behalf of the LilyPond developer community.
>>>
>>> We would like to ask you adding the following entry to
>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2016.html:
>>>
>>> LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
>>> highest-quality sheet music possible.  Users describe the music in a
>>> high-level text input format, which LilyPond processes to produce pdf,
>>> png, svg, and/or midi files.  LilyPond is written in C++ and Guile
>>> (the GNU project’s Scheme interpreter), with Guile also serving as
>>> user-level extension language.  LilyPond maintains a list of GSoC
>>> project suggestions on http://lilypond.org/google-summer-of-code.html.
>> Added.
>
> Thank you. I assume this will appear automatically at some point of
> automatic merging/processing, as currently it's not online yet.
>
>>
>>
>>> Additionally we would like to ask how and when to proceed about the
>>> allocation of slots. Last year we had two slots and unfortunately had to
>>> give one of them back because a student "got lost". This year we have
>>> four students who have expressed interest in applying so far, and my
>>> impression is that this will result in at least three real applications.
>>> Of course there is still time so the numbers may raise or fall, but we'd
>>> like to know where and when we should "apply" for a number of slots.
>> How many mentors there will be?  
>
> This is not clear yet and may actually prove a problem. Currently we're
> trying to determine the strength of the potential applicants and match
> them to possible mentors.
>
> So my question is probably when we should have a definite answer in
> order not to miss an opportunity to get slots.

We can ask as many slots as we want, but we must have at least one
mentor for each student.  How many potential mentors there are for
LilyPond?

Each subproject will decide how many Essential and Desired slots are
needed.  Then we sum up all of those for all projects and ask to Google
for Sum(Essential) and Sum(Desired).
Once we know how many slots we have, we will try to satisfy first the
Essential slots for each project then proceed with the Desired
ones.

Regards,
Giuseppe