Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:43:40PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On a similar note, the GSoC application deadline is Feb 14th. I am
> > happy to be admin again and put together the application, but we will
> > need an idea page. I'll set up a page to collect them, but in the
> > meantime, please dump any ideas/discussion in this thread.
> 
> Sorry for being so procrastinative :-(
> 
> I suggest we make it a rule that old projects cannot be proposed from
> year to year.

I would very much agree with that. There are projects that I have posted
multiple years, and nobody ever selects them. I should take that as a
hint that they are not appealing to students for whatever reason, and
are probably just clogging up the ideas list.

I'd make an exception for somebody who wants to substantially rework the
proposal in an attempt to make it more appealing, or who has a reason
why it is being re-proposed (e.g., we had student interest, but we ended
up not selecting it due to running out of slots or something). But those
should be the exception.

-Peff