[Boost-users] [GSoC 14] Request community to rank proposals

Subject: [Boost-users] [GSoC 14] Request community to rank proposals
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-24 17:07:49

Dear Boost Community,

The Google Summer of Code 2014 proposals for Boost are in, and we 
would deeply appreciate the community's help in ranking the proposals 
according to merit before the 1st of April.

To vote, the process is easy:

1. Go to this page 
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 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 2014. 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 42 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 basis of (i) proposal 
quality and your best estimate of the student's capability (ii) 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) (iii) 
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 - we have at least two mentors with 
many attached very highly ranked proposals and we really don't want 
to have to reject an outstanding proposal just because we can't find 
the mentors for it as no mentor can realistically mentor more than 
two projects simultaneously.

As you know, Google Summer of Code is usually worth $35,000 - $50,000 
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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