SoC April 2007

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19 discussions

URGENT: Problem with one application: last-minute meeting this Wednesday?
by Giovanni Corriga 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi all, I have some news regarding Matthew Fulmer's application. He told me on IRC that since his internship will continue during the summer, he won't be able to work much on his Summer of Code project and so he's retiring his application. I have thus downvoted his application to move it below the accepted application line. This means that now the fifth accepted project is the same that was discussed today on the #squeak-soc IRC channel (go to the mentors app to see what I'm talking about). If everyone is fine with that, we can leave things as they are now. Otherwise, please add more votes to other applications according to the rules I proposed earlier. When voting, please consider that after today's discussion, the first four project should be considered freezed finalized and definitively accepted (barring any other major last-minute problem) I'm calling another IRC meeting in order to finalize the decision for the fifth project. The meeting will start Wednesday, April 11th, at the same time as today's meeting: 19:00 CET 18:00 GMT (6:00 pm) 13:00 EST (1:00 pm) 12:00 CST (12:00 pm) 11:00 MST (11:00 am) 10:00 PST (10:00 am) Ciao, Giovanni

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is Luigi Panzeri in the running for funding in squeak-land?
by Heow Eide-Goodman 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

...he is over here at LispNYC and since each student can only get funding for one proposal, we'd like to know if we should be looking at others. Thanks, - Heow -- ;;-------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; reply to this email address (if (= 1 (random 2)) (apply 'concatenate 'string (mapcar #'reverse '("woeH" "@" "cnIskeeGahplA" "." "moc"))) (apply 'concatenate 'string (mapcar #'reverse '("woeH" "@" "CYNpsiL" "." "gro"))) )

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**thx** gio
by stephane ducasse 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Hi giovanni I really wanted to ***THX*** you for all the energy you put in SOC. Stef

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Preliminary student allocations: we have 5 slots
by Giovanni Corriga 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

Hi all, Google has finally allocated the students to the mentoring orgs. Squeak has received 5 slots of the 14 asked. It may not seem much, but since this is our first time in the SoC, I think it's a good result. To tell you the truth, I did ask for 14 slots, but I was expecting no more than three. Now we have to decide the actual projects to accept. Since there are many applications around the threshold, we should do a second round of scoring. The purpose of this second round of scoring is to confirm the selected applications or to change them with something that we think is better. I propose that in this second round we use only the +4, +2, 0 (N/A) and -2 values, in order to have more distance between each student application. In the next days, I'll be monitoring the applications list in order to solve possible problems (such as a selected student being selected for another organization, too). And finally, I propose an IRC meeting of all mentors, in order to solve possible last minute problems. Giovanni

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[Fwd: Preliminary Student Allocations Announced]
by Giovanni Corriga 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

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Student allocations and second round of scoring
by Giovanni Corriga 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Hi all April 6th, 21:30 UTC is the deadline for communicating to Google the desidered number of student. For this reason I've reduced our extremely high number of requested students to 14 (the number of us mentors). Google will then announce how many student slots have been allocated to us. As soon as we know the number of student slots, we'll have to start a second round of scoring. The purpose of this second round of scoring is to eliminate duplicates from the accepted student list. So if a student has two projects that would be selected, we'd have to drop one after talking to the student. If a student would be accepted in more than one organization, we'd have to talk to the student and the other organization's mentors and decide who's going to accept him. If April 11th comes and a student is accepted in more than one organization, he'll have to choose which project to pursue, and the discarded organization will also lose the student slot. Ciao, Giovanni

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[Fwd: The Great Mailing List Migration of 2007]
by Giovanni Corriga 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

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topics
by Ralph Johnson 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

The proposals tend to fall into several categories, and there are some proposals that are very similar. There are in fact five proposals (from four people) that propose adding a module to Seaside to make it like Ruby on Rails. I think that this topic has the biggest potential to make an impact. Seaside is powerful, but it is not easy to learn for people who do not already know Smalltalk well. If there was a "Seaside on Sails" that was as easy to learn as Ruby on Rails, Seaside (and Squeak) could really take off. It looks to me like these proposals are being overlooked by the mentors, perhaps because none of us are web developers or have used Ruby on Rails. I haven't use it either, but I have read the documentation and I can see why it has made such a big impact. I'd love to see Squeak capture some of that market. So, I urge mentors to read these proposals and to vote on them. There are a lot of tool-oriented proposals. I tend to like them, but other mentors do, too, so I won't say much about them. There are a couple of proposals to make something like "rake" for Squeak. I don't understand these. I've built several large systems in Smalltalk and never felt the need for make. I don't know rake, and when I read the proposals I feel like I am missing something. Could someone explain why we need something like this? -Ralph

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Assigning mentors
by Giovanni Corriga 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

Hi all, I've assigned mentors to all the applications where such an assignment was possible. The assignment is not final, so if you'd be willing to mentor a student for some project be sure to click on the "I'm willing to mentor" button. I'll periodically review all applications and make the suitable adjustments. Also, there are some applications with a positive score that don't have a mentor. I urge you to volunteer for those applications. Ciao, Giovanni

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