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[David Hart <dhart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just saw the melange code at proposal_review.py for the admin toggle
proposal.accept_as_project. Is the scoring and the 'should accept' flag
overlap just a coincidence?

-dave


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:06 PM, David Hart <dhart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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