SoC: 5 preliminary slots

Google has allocated 5 preliminary slots for the maemo
project. We might still end up getting less than these, but
definitely not more.

We need to move fast now to make sure that the top 5 ranked
proposals are the ones we want to promote. Google will make
final decisions at the end of Tuesday 10.

Proposal for next steps below. Discuss as much as you
want... today. I will apply changes in the (European)
night.

1 - Keep the top 10 proposals and mark as
"Ineligible" all the rest.

2 - Community mentors that haven't taken part at all in
ranks/mentorship until now will be also removed.

3 - Some of these to 10 projects have currently a backup
mentor temporary assigned. Last chance for community mentors
to claim ownership of these.

4 - Community mentors make a second round of ranks to these
10 projects. Backup mentors (all Nokia employees) don't vote
in this second round. I might add/take points as
administrator, only in the case a community mentor has
ranked 3 or more times (by accident or not). 

This way we will get the desired result: a proper rank of
projects based on the community will with mentorship
assigned in a way that community mentors have a preference
but backup mentors can assist wherever the community has
decided it is useful.

The current top 10:

Note that Google ranks projects with mentor on top of the
rest even if they have less points.

1. Ruby Maemo Bindings - Student Michael M. Martin - Mentor
Jay Phillips
2. GeoClue for Maemo - Jussi Kukkonen - Henri Bergius
3. Smoove - Instant Desktop Migration Suite - Paolo Durante
- William Maddler
4. Japanese/Chinese handwriting recognition on Maemo -
Mathieu Blondel - Makoto Sugano (backup)
5. Last.fm radio player - Alberto García - Xan López
Saborido (backup)
6. Improve the phoneME JVM, to integrate well with Maemo and
GPE enviroments - Clemens Eisserer - Johannes Eickhold
7. Dasher via Maemo Device as Keyboard for PC - Aaron
Westerdale - Luca De Cicco
8. Geolocation-based Transit Maps - James Addison - Andrew J
Turner
9. VPN Integration that Just Works - Kyle Ambroff - still no
mentor
10. Enterprise-class cryptographic filesystem - Arnaud
Jacques Elie Germis - still no mentor 

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If nobody has interest mentoring the last.fm proposal I will
be glad
to do it myself.

Cheers,
Luca
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On 4/7/07, Luca De Cicco <ldeciccogmail.com> wrote:
> If nobody has interest mentoring the last.fm proposal I
will be glad
> to do it myself.

Same here, I haven't got much time, but I have been working
on it. I
would like to participate in the project but I can assure
my
availability.

Greetings, kender
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Some mentors have started moving piece, let's go ahead with
the
proposal.

>1 - Keep the top 10 proposals and mark as
"Ineligible" all the rest.

Done. Courtesy email sent to the discarded proposals, trying
tp
summariza the reasons given by mentors not to support them.

>2 - Community mentors that haven't taken part at all in

>ranks/mentorship until now will be also removed.

Done.

>3 - Some of these to 10 projects have currently a backup

>mentor temporary assigned. Last chance for community
mentors 
>to claim ownership of these.

Taking note of the comments received, the changes will be
done (if
needed) once it's clear what are the top 5 projects.

>4 - Community mentors make a second round of ranks to
these 10 
>projects. Backup mentors (all Nokia employees) don't
vote in 
>this second round.

Someone started already. The mentors with ranking
"rights" are:

Andrew J Turner 
Henri Bergius 
Jay Phillips 
Johannes Eickhold 
Luca De Cicco 
Robert McQueen 
William Maddler 

It would be great if you could go (again) through all of the
10
remaining proposals ranking them from +4 to -2. This way we
will get
more clearer differences between scores.

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> 
> It would be great if you could go (again) through all
of the 10
> remaining proposals ranking them from +4 to -2. This
way we will get
> more clearer differences between scores.

Are you asking to double vote?

Cheers,
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My thoughts about maemo summer of code projects...

I think that a good way to manage the slot assigned to maemo
could be
selecting the most important categories for the maemo
project and then
finding the best project in each category.

Let's try to roughly categorize the proposals:

1) Bindings:
1.1 - Improve the phoneME JVM, to integrate well with Maemo
and GPE
enviroments.
1.2 - Ruby Maemo Bindings 

2) Location based services
2.1 Geoclue for maemo
2.2 Geolocation-based Transit Maps

3) Platform enhancements and UI improvement 
3.1 Smoove - Instant Desktop Migration Suite

4) New features 
4.1 VPN Integration that Just Works
4.2 Enterprise-class cryptographic filesystem 

5) Human Machine Interaction - input devices
5.1 Japanese/Chinese handwriting recognition on Maemo
5.2 Dasher via Maemo Device as Keyboard for PC

6) Multimedia
6.1 Last.fm radio player

This gross breakdown has led to 6 categories all of these
very
interesting and each project is very interesting too. A fair
criteria
for judging projects could be accepting at most one proposal
for each
category (this is rule that is often employed when reviewing
a
lot of projects) and then, as we have 6 categories and 5
slots, taking
out the category that has better support at the moment.

Just my 50eurocents,
Luca


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>Are you asking to double vote?

Yes, like in some democratic systems: first round with all
candidates
and final round concentrating in the most supported
candidates.

The difference here is that the second round doesn't start
from scratch,
since the previous ranks are still there. But still.

Only some of you ranked all these top 10 and in this second
round there
is no backup mentor input (and some backup mentors voted in
these
proposals). For these reasons we might still see changes in
the top 5.
Specially the 5th position seems to be quite unclear.

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On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 09:40 +0300, quim.gilnokia.com
wrote:
> Google has allocated 5 preliminary slots for the maemo
project. We
> might still end up getting less than these, but
definitely not more.

As the light blue line in the list of proposals seems to
have climbed up
one further position I assume that Google has decided to
give maemo only
four instead of five slots. Correct?

(If not, I hereby please the remaining mentors to vote for
the Java
proposal. It has got only votes from 5 mentors while other
projects got
votes from up to 9 mentors.)

Jonek

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It looks like we are getting 4 slots, yes: 

- Ruby Maemo Bindings  
- GeoClue for Maemo  
- Smoove - Instant Desktop Migration Suite  
- Japanese/Chinese handwriting recognition on Maemo  

Time to sleep here, tomorrow we will know for sure.

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Now it's confirmed:

http://co
de.google.com/soc/maemo/about.html

Congratulations for the 4x2 fortunates and thank you very
much to all
the rest of students. If you still want to work on your
project
proposals you will find our collaboration anyway.

Now we need to talk about the project setup. A Garage
project for every
SoC project so everyone interested can join the discussion
and follow
the development?



On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 23:06 +0200, ext Johannes Eickhold
wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 09:40 +0300, quim.gilnokia.com
wrote:
> > Google has allocated 5 preliminary slots for the
maemo project. We
> > might still end up getting less than these, but
definitely not more.
> 
> As the light blue line in the list of proposals seems
to have climbed up
> one further position I assume that Google has decided
to give maemo only
> four instead of five slots. Correct?
> 
> (If not, I hereby please the remaining mentors to vote
for the Java
> proposal. It has got only votes from 5 mentors while
other projects got
> votes from up to 9 mentors.)
> 
> Jonek
> 
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