[GSoC] reminder: final evaluations due Friday

[Chris Fields]

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chris

On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Christian Zmasek wrote:

> 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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