funded and unfunded projects [RFC]

[Karsten Wade]

I have a proposal that in selecting proposals we do this:

1. Decide which proposals are worthy of taking if we had an endless
   budget.

2. Order those proposals and fund the ones we think should have budget
   right now.

3. The other proposals are unfunded but otherwise good enough to
   proceed; offer to the students and mentors of those proposed
   projects they can run the project for full credit but no pay.

We'd love to fund all the great projects people are proposing.  Some
people are saying they'd love to work the project even if they don't
get funded.  If they have a proposal that would get funded if we had
more budget, and they do the work, they should get full credit.

Credit means:

* Recognition as a participant who completed the program.  The funding
  is not referenced here, so the students can put it on their
  CV/resume the same as if it were a funded project.

* Any materials we provide for students (t-shirt, certificate, etc.)
  goes to the unfunded projects as well.

* Any media/publicity (student blog planet, press releases, etc.)
  include all the students regardless if the project is funded or
  unfunded.

This idea has been discussed amongst a few of us, and maybe there are
some parts of it on this list.

The mentors should have this guidance as they go in to proposal review
next week.

Thanks - Karsten

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Karsten Wade  wrote:
> I have a proposal that in selecting proposals we do this:
> Decide which proposals are worthy of taking if we had an endless
>
> budget.
> Order those proposals and fund the ones we think should have budget
>
> right now.
> The other proposals are unfunded but otherwise good enough to
>
> proceed; offer to the students and mentors of those proposed
>   projects they can run the project for full credit but no pay.

Based on the rest of the mail (which I snipped out) this does seem
like a great way to move ahead. At this point in time it would be
compelling to start off and, start showing off projects being
developed.

As an aside, I'd like us to revisit the concept of
planet.fedoraproject.org/fsoc : it would form an important part of the
'show to the world the goodness'

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:42:35AM +0530, sankarshan wrote:
> As an aside, I'd like us to revisit the concept of
> planet.fedoraproject.org/fsoc : it would form an important part of the
> 'show to the world the goodness'

_Definitely_ part of the plan I've been working on -- I may even have
written it down somewhere.  Thanks for the reminder, I'll file a Trac
request.

- Karsten