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01:18.59cpgcan someone point me to the rules when an org fails a student?
01:19.31cpgi am looking through https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/rules/
01:19.52cpgwe have a student that is proving to be on the fence
01:46.17Robert_SWhat do you mean by rules?  Have you read all the emails with instructiosn about evaluations?  iirc Stephanie sent one out with some guidance.  There's also been discussions on the mentor list.
01:48.02cpgi read all emails, though we never have been in a position contemplating failing a student (we always got lots of applicants and very good students), so i tuned that part out
01:48.16Robert_SGo back and re-read it?  :)
01:48.51Robert_SFor specific questions, where you want Google input, you should email support.
01:49.00cpgno
01:49.10cpgi just wanted a quick summary of the implications
01:49.17Robert_SIf you fail them, they're out.
01:49.20cpgis the students continuing after a fail?
01:49.22cpgok
01:49.37cpgand he does not get the stipend, i assum
01:49.38Robert_SBut you really should go back and read the stuff so that you can be consistent with everyone else.
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10:14.30matthewwilkesSometimes I think that the thing GSoC teaches more than anything else is for open source contributors to identify failure
10:14.56panzone_what do you mean?
10:17.25matthewwilkesThe amount of reticence about failing a student, especially from new mentors and orgs, is quite amazing sometimes. Even when it's a slam-dunk people want to give the student another chance, and believe everything will get better. Identifying failure and dealing with it in a timely way is an important skill.
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21:35.11ollymatthewwilkes: fail early, fail often
21:36.01ollyor the more literary "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better" (Beckett)
21:38.03Valodimbut also "Fail in a way that doesn't kill you."
21:39.40ollythat just weeds out the less successful universes
21:45.06ollyi think the nub of the issue is probably that taken in isolation, an individual pass/fail decision appears to have more possible upside for "give them another chance", plus less unpleasant confrontation
21:45.41ollythough actually we've had at least one failed student stay involved, and I've heard other orgs have too
21:46.23ValodimI also have one of these ambiguous situations on my hand, again :(
21:47.00Valodimthe student didn't make progress in ten days, and when I asked him about it his reason was a car accident of his mother and he hadn't noticed the days went by so fast and whatnot
21:47.10meflinif the student is a clear pass its problly a fail
21:47.22meflin"fun" is when the mentor is an issue
21:47.25ollymissing not there?
21:47.42Robert_SValodim: did they let you know they had an issue early in the 10 days?
21:47.48Valodimno
21:47.52meflingsoc is the leading cause of dead grandma's
21:48.09ollyi was just trying to remember who pointed that out
21:48.13Valodimhis previous progress was acceptable, but not stellar. I have asked him to give daily reports since then, which he has been doing, but on a sort of weird schedule
21:48.52Robert_Scommunication up front is important, it can fix a lot of things.
21:49.02ValodimI'll wait and see for the remaining two days of evaluation period. hope he gives me reason to pass him
21:49.14terriin our case, we've had more problems with mentors having to bow out than students.  Much harder to deal with from an org admin perspective.
21:49.36Valodimcommunication up front makes it unnecesary to fix anything because things don't break then :)
21:50.03meflinonce apon a time ( everone come next to fire and have a hot chocolate ) a student had 2 dead grandmas's
21:50.22Robert_SValodim: Car accident still happened.  Unless it was due to bad communication.
21:50.28territhis year it's been mentors, anyhow.  at least none of the mentors has had a house burn down yet that I know of, which happened in a previous year.
21:50.58Valodimright, but if he had told me hey there's this thing I need a couple days, that would have been fine
21:51.04meflinterri: not your year but flooded .... I still mentored tho :P
21:51.07Robert_SValodim: Exactly.
21:51.08terriRobert_S: my driving instructor two decades ago would have argued that all car accidents have bad communication at the root of them. ;)
21:51.24Robert_Sterri: Exactly to that too.
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21:51.51meflinprevious to such evens you should have a track record and comunication to judge by
21:53.13terriIt is a bit harder with the extra eval: a week suddenly seems huge
21:53.46Valodimyeah definitely
21:53.48meflinI do have a complaint on that issue
21:53.49Valodimbut I like the three evals
21:54.00Robert_Smeflin: You always have a complaint.  :)
21:54.08meflinRobert_S: NO :P
21:54.37terriI like the 3 evals, but I'm thinking I'm going to have to ask students to blog weekly because bi-weekly means I only see two blog posts per eval to sanity check hwo they're doing.
21:55.36terriWish I'd realized that before I set the schedule!
21:55.40Valodimsix weeks and then only a single point of evaluation during the project was just too long, and readjustment didn't work very well in my experience
21:55.47meflinrasies an eyebrow I guess we will have that fight in private
21:56.45Robert_SAren't you agreeing?
21:57.51meflinterri: is 110% right so yes ;D
21:58.37terriHe only agrees with me in public. ;)
21:59.48meflinthe longer term is a better window into how things are going IMO ... altho my largest complaint is the short eval windows
22:01.03terriaw, it's not about how we can't edit evals any more?  I miss that.
22:01.11meflinno
22:01.41terriI think I'll like the short evals once we get used to them, this year is just a bit hard 'cause we're not used to evaluating so littel so there's a whole lot of "meh" going on
22:03.06Robert_Smeh
22:04.12meflinRobert_S: change something next year I'll complain about that as well :P
22:05.38Robert_Swe'll try not to
22:05.57terriRobert_S: darn, I'd better change something to keep him busy then. ;)
22:07.04meflinRobert_S: I hate you
22:07.19terriValodim: I hope the student pulls through, btw.  I always wonder if it's more of a kindness to let people fail and get their lives back together if something big happens.
22:08.04Valodimyeah, same here :)
22:08.04meflinI have had a student pull thru tho that was post mid-term ( disapereed)
22:08.18meflinused the $ for a smart phone started writing apps
22:08.39Valodimif he makes it this time though I will be watching him very closely and his progress better be super great if he wants to pass the project as a whole!
22:09.24Valodimmeflin: musta' been an expensive smartphone
22:09.33Valodimor do you mean from the old welcome bonus?
22:09.43meflinnope mid term
22:09.53Valodimmusta' been an expensive smartphone
22:10.31meflin2 weeks out came back the mentor put the beet down so hard "I" almost put a stop on it ... came back to 110% of project
22:10.50meflinmentored for me in later years
22:11.01Valodimheh. nice
22:11.36Valodimstill, for each story like that there's probably hundreds of students that barely passed midterm on promises that were never kept
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22:11.56meflinoh I have those ... not story worthy
22:12.13meflinI will make it up ! I will make it up!
22:12.20meflinwell no
22:12.41meflinbarely passed ( convo I had today ) usualy ends badly
22:13.47meflinfail early and fail often is very hard when you always are looking how how you did not mentor at 150%
22:14.57Valodimalso even an underperforming student is still a student that might produce incomplete results, compared to failing and no student at all
22:15.16Valodimthe incentives are quite complex and weird with gsoc mentoring :)
22:16.34meflinlike life it is complicated ... for that one tho
22:17.21meflinhard working student who will be part of the comunity who is perhaps producing at 50% of hope?
22:18.05meflinstudent who is %75% who is self-isolating working for the pass? meh
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22:37.31anthomIt's interesting to read about the org side :p As a student GSoC has been new challenges, friends and cool new skills.
22:37.33anthomAnd the two evaluations until now are a very good occasion to see a milestone of the project and assess progress, I love the three evaluations process.
22:37.55anthom+so far (has been so far new challenges, ...)
22:43.16ollyi think 3 is better, but they do seem to whip around quickly
22:47.23Valodimat least this change seems to be unanimously appreciated
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