GSOC Student Slot Rules

[Joel Sherrill]

Hi,

I found a bit on how student slots are allocated to projects.
It looks like having a high number of mentors is a good thing
as I suspected.

Mentors need to visit the mentor dashboard and request ownership
of any project they are interested in mentoring. 

There are still more student proposals than mentors. So there is
a need.

From: 
http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-the-gsoc-web-app-for-mentors-and-organization-administrators

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      Student Allocations & The Likely to be Accepted Line

In each organization's application list, there is a line which reads 
"Applications below this line are less likely to be accepted." Prior to 
allocation of student slots to organizations by Google, this line is set 
based on the number of student projects the organization's administrator 
has listed in the Organization's Profile in the "Desired Number of 
Projects" field. Once students slots are allocated, meaning Google 
advises each organization of how many students participants for the 
program will be funded for that org, this line will be frozen by 
Google's program administrators based on the number of slots allotted. 
Organizations should make sure that the student applications that they 
most want funded are modded up to be above this line.

Google's program administrators allocate students slots based on several 
factors, including:

    * number of projects requested by the organization
    * number of student projects with mentors assigned to them

While we will make every effort to announce the number of allocated 
student slots for each organization sooner rather than later.


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