[daisy] [GSoC] likely to be acceptedness warning

[Marc Portier]

Guy Van den Broeck wrote:
> hey there
> 
> i'm having a bit of a problem with my soc application. i'm not sure if
> the mentors can see this but i applied for 1 other project too with the
> maemo organization. first of all i want it to be clear that my DaisyCMS

not directly in the google pages, no

> application is the application of my choice, and given the option to
> choose i would select Daisy immediatly. The other project proposal i did
> is something else (it has to do with WiFi localization) that really
> interests me but to me it doesn't offer the advantages that Daisy does.
> 
> anyway here's the problem: the people of maemo contacted me and told me
> that they got the message that i was being assigned a mentor for Daisy
> and they ask me if i wanted to step down from maemo and give other

which means this group kinda has chosen you already, just like your
above paragraph is preferring us?

Last year we got during project-voting the indication that we were
likely to get 3 projects assigned, we got all 3 effectively.

This year shows the same indication, and we have no reason (apart maybe
not finding enough valid candidates/projects) to believe the outcome
will be different.

> students my 'spot'. however, i believe that being assigned a mentor does
> not mean being selected, by far. so my question is: what should i do?

Well, the difference is that google needs to make things effective. But
that is the only difference, and since you're the only one with a mentor
assigned already...

(BTW: I would urge the other candidates to take the completeness of your
application as an example)


Towards what you should do: I'ld say "very little"

Google will only assign you to one project, and that will be the one
that has a mentor assigned, the warning to the maemo mentors that we
already have a mentor assigned really just should warn them that they
need to resolve with us which project should effectively get you.

Typically such resolution should start with asking which project you
prefer. As this makes things really clear in this case I would just let
them know your preference like you did here.

It's then up to their mentors to not assign anyone, and give other
projects a better evaluation.

There is to my knowledge no other way 'to give away your spot'


> does daisy want me to step down from maemo as daisy is my first choice?
> can i leave all options open in case i wont be selected by daisy or do i
> have to make a choice now?
> 

bottom line:

as far as I'm concerned you made a clear choice here by expressing your
preference, just give the maemo peeps the same clear message

furthermore you can drop your worries about not being selected, Daisy is
very likely to get 3 projects assigned, from those 3 one is practically
 already allocated for you




-marc=