[GSoC] Proposal Evaluations

Roman Valls brainstorm at nopcode.org
Mon Mar 28 01:51:03 UTC 2016


I second Pjotr, it's a pity that the current .withgoogle.com system
does not support/allow that yet.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 2:13 PM,  <pjotr.public112 at thebird.nl> wrote:
> Hi Kai,
>
> This looks to be a good GSoC again :). Kai, why don't we set up a
> Google spreadsheet with the names of the students and each one of us
> rates proposals on a scale of 1-5 (5 being brilliant, 4 being good, 3
> being average and 2 and 1 being bad.).
>
> The way we did it in other years is 3 rounds. First round every mentor
> rates their *own* student only. In the next ronud all mentors rate *all*
> students (students without a mentor and bad proposals drop off).
>
> In each case when rating a student put in a comment too. Make sure to
> tell how a student has interacted in the proposal phase, what his
> current coding looks like, how responsive he is... And you can still
> push him to do stuff. We like it when students keep responsive, also
> in this phase.
>
> In the 3rd round the org admins make the final ranking and
> decision to set the number of slots. By this stage we will be pretty
> clear about the individuals involved (and note that mentor activity
> counts too).  When Google allocates the slots the top-ranked students
> get in.
>
> Pj.
>
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