[GSoC] reminder: final evaluations due Friday

[Christian Zmasek]

I totally agree with Peter's points.

Christian



>________________________________
>From: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
>To: Robert Buels <rmb32 at cornell.edu>
>Cc: OBF GSoC <gsoc at lists.open-bio.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:59 AM
>Subject: Re: [GSoC] reminder: final evaluations due Friday
>
>On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Robert Buels <rmb32 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Students, your projects should now be finished.  Students, please make sure
>> you have updated your progress pages with concluding entries and final
>> thoughts.  I hope you all enjoyed your summer and learned a lot! Please make
>> sure you've given your mentors a BIG thank-you, they have some of the
>> hardest jobs in GSoC.
>>
>> Mentors, final evaluations are due by this Friday, August 26.  Thanks so
>> much for your work, it means a lot.  Especially to the students.
>>
>> Everybody, if you have suggestions or feedback for what aspects of the
>> program worked well this year, which things didn't work so well, or things
>> we should add for next year, I'm always interested to hear them!  Just drop
>> me an email at this same address.
>>
>> Thank you so much for everything you've done this summer, and here's to many
>> more successful years of OBF GSoC in the future!
>>
>> Rob
>
>Hi Rob,
>
>Thanks for your hard work again this year.
>
>In terms of feedback for the OBF GSoC 2011, my main
>observation is that overall it seems there has been less
>interaction with the students and the respective community
>mailing lists. I have been reassured by mentors, wiki
>updates, and code commits that work is going on, but
>for next year I think we should insist up front from the
>start that students are expected to send a weekly email
>report of what they have been doing to the appropriate
>mailing list of the host project (e.g. biopython-dev or
>bioperl-l), and perhaps CC'd to our GSoC mailing list.
>Otherwise it has been hard for non-mentors to follow
>what is happening.
>
>This is not intended as a personal criticism of anyone -
>just something I think we could do better next year.
>
>Regards,
>
>Peter
>
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