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Alice
Hi there !
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Alice
all you guys doze off ?
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Kev
So, question (flow): When's the GSoC application review this year, and should Council be being asked to review stuff?
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Kev
I've got feeling student applications finished ages ago, so it has to be coming up soon?
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Kev
flow?
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MattJ
What would Council review?
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Kev
Council reviews the applications to give input into which ones the XSF should request slots for.
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MattJ
Says? I wasn't aware of that, and I don't think flow was either, afaik our slot requests are already submitted
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Kev
We've always done it that way.
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Kev
Ah. So who chose them, then?
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MattJ
The individual projects
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Kev
Well, too late to do anything about it now then, I guess, if slots are already submitted.
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Kev
But the reasoning has always been that Council's technical leadership, so should have input into what projects are worth supporting etc.
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Zash
Is this written down anywhere?
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Kev
Probably on a past mailing list somewhere.
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MattJ
I'm convinced the XSF needs more documentation on processes like this
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Kev
A quick search of my mailbox shows Council minutes from 2015 of being told to sign up for review (actually while you were on Council, FWIW).
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MattJ
Believe it or not I don't remember what was in the minutes of a random council meeting in 2015
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MattJ
It seems a bit silly to me that Council would decide slot requests
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Kev
I more meant that you'd been reviewing stuff on behalf of Council when you'd been on Council in the past, that expecting you to remember the minutes :)
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MattJ
I can see why Council review/input may be requested on specific proposals that involve protocol stuff
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Kev
Council haven't decided slot requests, they've just reviewed and given input to the admin, who'se typically asked Board to rubber-stamp the choices.
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Kev
(Although not always, sometimes Board's just said to get on with everything)
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Kev
It's more whether particular projects are sensible priorities for the XSF to spend their slots on.
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MattJ
Well if we don't get the slots we requested (entirely possible), some discussion will be needed to decide which proposals get priority
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Kev
How many did we request?
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MattJ
2-4, according to flow's last email
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Kev
Almost bound to get 2, I think.
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Kev
4, who knows.
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MattJ
Yes, I wouldn't be surprised
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Zash
3 would be lagom // a swede
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pep.
I'm also surprised why council is needed at all. I guess the only relevant part that it could play is what MattJ brought up, if we get less slots than requested.
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pep.
Though.. projects have asked for min-max slots so..
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MattJ
Right, but we could still be allocated fewer than the min number of slots we requested
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pep.
Sure, that's the only use-case I see
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pep.
And even then
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pep.
That's up to the org admin to come up with a way to decide I guess, I don't think we need to involve council
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pep.
(note, the org admin can choose to)
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Zash
Does it hurt for council to provide input?
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pep.
It doesn't hurt but I don't see the point
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pep.
They're busy enough already
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Guus
I wasn't aware that council was involved in the past either. Fwiw, Flow announced he'd be off for a short holiday.
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larma
I feel that the mentors + org-admin are likely able to decide without involvement of the council, even if the number of allocated slots doesn't match what was requested (it's not like we are going to fight each other, more likely the complete opposite).
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Zash
huh
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Zash
Where does xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" come from in the XEP HTML files?
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Zash
and what does `--param htmlbase ...` do?