[SoC] freeCAD port to Croquet

[Ken Causey]

I agree with Matthew that it is probably not going to be possible for us
to support 2 FreeCAD projects.  However I believe he is mistaken about
voting.  I'm hoping Giovanni will clarify but from his descriptions I
understand that there are two seperate voting periods.  We are currently
in the first one where we should evaluate each application in isolation
purely on its merits irrespective of any other application.  Later
(around the 15th as I understand it) we will be told how many projects
Google will fund for us and it will be time for us to narrow down the
choices to fill the available slots.  Then will be the time to consider
issues such as how many applications we can support for a given concept,
etc.

Can you confirm this is accurate Giovanni?

Ken

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 18:09 -0700, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:11:12PM -0700, Aik-Siong Koh wrote:
> > At Matthew Fulmer's request, I am making my email to him below public.
> > Aik-Siong Koh
> 
> I suppose that's a cue to make my reply public as well
> 
> > Matthew:
> > 
> > Thank you for supporting Phua for this project. He is indeed excellent.
> > 
> > I would like you to reconsider Chai whom I judge is very good. A score of
> > -1 does not reflect his worth. Phua and Chai worked very well together on
> > their final year project. Since you know Phua, can you contact Phua
> > directly and get a real picture of Chai.
> > 
> > Chai already has a job offer that is 30% above average for his class. But
> > he will be doing Perl. I am hoping GSoc will give both Phua and Chai the
> > visibility that companies like Qwaq will support them to do Smalltalk.
> 
> No doubt, but we can't fund both to work on the same project as
> part of gsoc. We won't have that many slots. If you would prefer
> Chai to be in GSoC over Phua, I will support that and change my
> vote. But we can't have both. You should drop one of them from
> the 'I am willing to mentor' list.
> 
> If Chai is a newer student than Phua, it may make more sense to
> push him for GSoC over phua, as Phua has already invested a lot
> into this project.
> 
> The votes reflect whether we want to see this project as part of
> GSoC, not on the student's worth. Chai is great, but if phua
> needs the spot more, we can't have chai in.
> 
> I voted under the assumption that Phua deserves the GSoC funding
> over chai. If you would rather it be the other way, I will
> reverse my votes. But you should not push both. We don't have
> enough slots to spend 2 of them on one project.
> 
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