Re: GSoC project idea page addition | question about slots

[Urs Liska]

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.

> Please ask all the mentors to subscribe
> to this mailing list, because this is the place where we do announcement
> and to send the following information to me and José Marchesi
> <address@hidden> for each of them (only AltEmail is optional):
>
> Name: 
> Email: 
> AltEmail: 
> Phone: 
> Project: 

I will do that once we're ready.

Thank you for the attention
Urs

> Thanks,
> Giuseppe