[Open-bio-l] [GSoC-mentors] OBF Proposals

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Wed Apr 7 13:58:04 EDT 2010


Agreed.  The critical thing is to not lose students due to lack of
evaluation (I saw that one in particular has withdrawn or is
ineligible).

chris

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 10:09 -0700, Robert Buels wrote:
> Based on the discussions on the GSoC-wide mentors list, the difficulty 
> with starting to review proposals before the deadline is that it can 
> introduce bias toward lower scores for proposals submitted at or near 
> the deadline.  Also, some of these proposals might still be edited by 
> students.
> 
> However, I think it would be a good idea for mentors to start taking a 
> look *through* the proposals, just don't really score them yet.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> Chris Fields wrote:
> > All mentors, 
> > 
> > We really need to start evaluating the proposals listed on the OBF site; a vast majority are still listed under new proposals (i.e. not under review).  This doesn't need to include assigning some score just yet, though I have noticed a few orgs (TPF, NESCent) are doing so.  
> > 
> > http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/list_proposals/google/gsoc2010/obf
> > 
> > chris
> > 
> > 
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