[boost] [gsoc15] Please help rank GSoC 2015 student projects

Subject: [boost] [gsoc15] Please help rank GSoC 2015 student projects
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-27 17:12:11

Dear Boost Community,

The Google Summer of Code 2015 proposals for Boost are in, and we 
would
deeply appreciate the community's help in ranking the proposals 
according
to merit before the 6th of April.

To vote, the process is easy:

1. Go to this page 
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 and 
click the
"Log in" button under Mentors and Administrators.

2. Now click "Create Profile" on the same page. Note that even if you
registered last year, you must register again in 2015. Fill in the 
form.
Note that after submitting it drops you at "Edit Profile", which is
confusing.

3. Click "My Dashboard", then "Connect with organisations".

4. Choose "Boost C++ Libraries".

5. In the message box, write this: "I am a member of the Boost 
community
and the email(s) I normally post to boost mailing lists with is 
<email>"
filling in the email address(es) you normally use to post to boost 
mailing
lists. This lets us verify that you are indeed a long standing member 
of
the Boost community.

6. Once we approve your request, you will get an email with the 
subject
"Welcome as organisation member". You can now return to the Dashboard 
on
the GSoC website where there will be a new item "Proposals".

7. Work your way through as many of the 33 proposals as you can. You 
can
score them using the stars at the bottom of each proposal page, 
taking
care to read any comments by the mentors and students if present. 
PLEASE
try to rank some of the lowest scored proposals, every year we get a 
lot
of people who only rank the top five and don't bother with the rest.

Try to score on the priority basis of:

(i) ability to write quality C++, using the programming competency 
test or samples of programming the student supplied.

(ii) proposal quality and your best estimate of the student's 
understanding of how best to solve the problem at hand. Bear in mind 
a gifted programmer with a strong work ethic but poor English may 
appear to not understand the problem as well as native English 
speakers, this is why we have asked for examples of their programming 
competency.

(iii) if the student came early to the mailing lists to ask for help 
writing the proposal (the mentors who helped them with their 
proposals have usually indicated this in the private comments).

(iv) usefulness/appropriateness of the feature or work being 
proposed.

Remember a good GSoC is more about getting promising new engineers 
into Boost and C++ than necessarily getting code to pass Boost peer 
review in a single summer.  

8. Optional: If a proposal looks especially great to you and you feel 
able
to mentor a student this year, please slide the "wish to mentor" 
button.
Just because a proposal already has willing mentors does NOT mean you
should not add yourself - if you can substitute for an existing 
mentor, that may mean we use that mentor for another proposal.

As you know, Google Summer of Code is usually worth $42,000 - $48,000 
to
Boost each year, and a successful GSoC raises our visibility and
reputation in the wider open source community. Our thanks to you in
advance for taking the time to vote.

Niall Douglas
Boris Schäling

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