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[David Hart <dhart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It appears OpenCog has been provisionally assigned 4 slots in melange - the
4 highest ranked proposals have the 'should accept' flag set.

http://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/dashboard/google/gsoc2012#proposals_submitted

-dave

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Matt Chapman <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That's not likely a factor at this stage, IMO. Organizations can
> disable the 5-star scoring feature, so I don't think it could be part
> of the algorithm for assigning slot counts. I think it's only used as
> a fall back for deciding which proposals get accepted if there are
> more flagged as 'accepted' than there are slots available. (Which
> organizations are encouraged to do, in case some students are 'lost'
> because of multiple accepted proposals to different Orgs.)
>
> All the Best,
>
> Matt Chapman
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Nil Geisweiller
> <ngeiswei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Matt,
> >
> > do you think doing an first round of voting today (beefing up the
> > scores of the potentially selected positions and by that increasing
> > the average score) would have a positive impact on the number of slots
> > we get?
> >
> > Nil
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Matt Chapman <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> Hey team,
> >>
> >> In less than 24 hours, the GSoC slot allocations will be decided.
> >> (After that we have until April 20th to pick which proposals to
> >> accept.)
> >>
> >> I strongly suspect that the number of active mentors is a factor (but
> >> just one of many factors) in determining how many slots we receive. So
> >> if you've been meaning to flag some proposal as 'Want to Mentor,' NOW
> >> is the time to do it.
> >>
> >> This isn't set in stone; we will still be able to (re)assign
> >> mentorships, but based on my understanding of the slot allocation
> >> process, I think I will be important to Google to demonstrate that we
> >> have the mentors available to cover the slots we've requested.
> >>
> >> All the Best,
> >>
> >> Matt Chapman
> >> OpenCog GSoC 2012 admin
> >>
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