[SoC] Preliminary slot count: 4

[Matthew Fulmer]

Hi all. Leslie just sent out the first cut at slot assignments,
and we have 4 so far

Giovanni: Did you ask for a certain number of slots? I think the
number we can reasonably handle is 10, by looking at the
applications page

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From: "LH (Leslie Hawthorn)" <lhospo at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:49:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Preliminary Slot Counts (long but important)


Hello everyone,

Here is the list of preliminary slot counts assigned to your
organization.  This is *preliminary* only.  If you want to know how we
determine these counts, please see the documentation:

http://tinyurl.com/38ljx4

****Very Important:****

Many organizations have still not let us know how many students they
can reasonably mentor. If you are an organization administrator,
please login to the web app and let us know ASAP how many students
your project can actually support.  You can do this by entering a
numeric value in the "Desired Number of Projects" field on your
organization's profile page.

Why This List Can and Will Change:

- It is possible that some projects have been assigned more students
than they can reasonably handle.  In that case, the student slots will
be reallocated to a different project.

- We have currently allocated funding for 1,000 student projects.  If
we discover that there are great proposals going unfunded, we *may* be
able to fund up to 100 additional student projects.  We would allocate
these extra slots based on need (as determined by the requested number
of student slots listed in your organization profile).

Please make this number realistic.  E.g. if you have 10 great
proposals but only two mentors, asking for 10 slots is likely not
reasonable.  If you have 10 mentors but only 3 great proposals, only
ask for 3 slots.

Asking for More Slots:

It's critical for us to know how many students each project can
reasonably support in order for us to allocated more slots to projects
in need.  The best way to tell us that you need more slots is to fill
out the number of slots you need in your organization profile.  We
will rerun our allocation script later this week to get a better sense
for student allocations, then after that we will discuss with those
projects in need about adjusting your slot counts. (IRC meeting
likely, stay tuned.)  Until we know how many students each project
really wants, adjusting slot counts is not a useful exercise.

Preliminary Slot Counts:

Your organization's slot count is listed here by your organization's
short form name.  If you don't know your organization's short form
name, you can find it by going to http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ and
clicking on your organization's name on the page.  Your org short form
name will be included in the URL to your "about" page.

For example, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence's
short form name is siai, as can be seen in this URL for their about
page:

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/siai/about.html

Here's the slot count list:

...
squeak: 4
...

There will no doubt be many questions. Please ask away.

Cheers,
LH


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