On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:46:05PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 5/8/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
I've thought it over. I disagree with your assement of "fair." I think it would be less fair to turn away a second strong candidate in favor of a weaker feature.
Agreed.
Bryce: what are those slots you mentioned? Do we have a limited number of participants we can accept? I didn't see a mention of this before.
Yes, there will be a limited number of student applications that google will fund.
As of yesterday, google has received 3200 total applications. Today there was a deluge of last minute applications, so I could easily imagine this will increase two or three fold. Last year google accepted 400 projects. Maybe they'll accept more this year, but who knows. This means something like between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 proposals will be accepted.
Last year, Google determined the number of slots per project as (sort of) proportional to the number of proposals the projects got. So if you received 100 proposals, you'd get twice as many slots as a project that only got 50. I don't remember how many proposals we got last year, but google limited us to 4 slots.
We have received 21 proposals as of now. Thus I think we'd be extremely lucky to get 4 slots again. Much more likely is that we will have 2 slots. We won't know for sure until google announces the numbers, but I think we need to be prepared that since we got so few proposals, we may only have 2 slots to work with this year.
Bryce