[Phylobase-devl] Phyloinformatics Summer of Code 2008

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Steve Kembel wrote:

> Anyone else interested in participating? My assumption is that we
> could do some collaborative mentoring via phylobase-devl. Hilmar, when
> would we need a proposal ready, and how much detail would be required?


The submission deadline for mentoring organization applications is  
March 12, so at the latest by then it should be in shape.

The level of detail should allow a student to understand what in  
general the problem being targeted is and what its context is. It  
doesn't need to have an execution plan; in fact, it is the student  
that is supposed to supply an initial draft of that in his/her proposal.

(A student may choose to propose the same or a variation of what is  
suggested in the project idea. That's why it's called a project  
*idea*. In reality, the majority of students propose the same, which  
has the advantage if being guaranteed to be feasible, useful, and  
'mentorable' (since presumably that's why you put the idea in the  
first place), but the downside is that it's more difficult to judge  
how much thought the student really spent on the project, and hence  
how big the interest level really is. You'll see when we get to that  
stage.)

	-hilmar
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