Scioly Summer Study Session 2017

[Unome]

Wait what happened to the Dynamic Planet rotation? I thought they with changing to four year rotation with tectonics, glaciers, freshwater?, and oceans one year each. Why is it tectonics again next year?

I guess the decision not to switch to one-year-per-topic was made. Or at least not switching to it yet.

In the meantime, until either topic is announced definitely, SSSS will accept resources for either Dynamic Planet topic, tectonics or glaciers. But tectonics is preferred. It would be best to generate resources for the possibly "new" topic that might rotate in next year.

Also, unrelatedly, wow! "new" smileys that are probably not "new" new but new to me

What constitutes "announced definitely"? The change occured here.

[whythelongface]

Wait what happened to the Dynamic Planet rotation? I thought they with changing to four year rotation with tectonics, glaciers, freshwater?, and oceans one year each. Why is it tectonics again next year?

I guess the decision not to switch to one-year-per-topic was made. Or at least not switching to it yet.

In the meantime, until either topic is announced definitely, SSSS will accept resources for either Dynamic Planet topic, tectonics or glaciers. But tectonics is preferred. It would be best to generate resources for the possibly "new" topic that might rotate in next year.

Also, unrelatedly, wow! "new" smileys that are probably not "new" new but new to me

So will you be taking Climate Change Processes for the Remote Sensing topic?

[mnstrviola]

I guess the decision not to switch to one-year-per-topic was made. Or at least not switching to it yet.

In the meantime, until either topic is announced definitely, SSSS will accept resources for either Dynamic Planet topic, tectonics or glaciers. But tectonics is preferred. It would be best to generate resources for the possibly "new" topic that might rotate in next year.

Also, unrelatedly, wow! "new" smileys that are probably not "new" new but new to me

What constitutes "announced definitely"? The change occured here.

Yep my bad, I misunderstood the situation. We will only accept for tectonics, and I will have that reflected on our Google Doc. Thanks!

[Random Human]

How many test usually end up on SSSS by the end of the the session? Just wondering...

[Unome]

How many test usually end up on SSSS by the end of the the session? Just wondering...

In the range of 20 or so total - at some point I'll count them. It tends to increase every year.

Edit: I counted, there were 17 approved submissions from last year. That means there were likely around 50 total submissions (guesstimate).

[Zioly]

How many test usually end up on SSSS by the end of the the session? Just wondering...

In the range of 20 or so total - at some point I'll count them. It tends to increase every year.

Edit: I counted, there were 17 approved submissions from last year. That means there were likely around 50 total submissions (guesstimate).

Sorry if this has already been said (it's getting kinda late here, I have a 9 am econ lecture tomorrow, and I wanted to post before I went to sleep), but...

will people with approved submissions have access to all submissions, accepted or not, or just the approved ones? If the situation is the latter, would it be possible to gain access to the unapproved ones as well?

[bernard]

How many test usually end up on SSSS by the end of the the session? Just wondering...

In the range of 20 or so total - at some point I'll count them. It tends to increase every year.

Edit: I counted, there were 17 approved submissions from last year. That means there were likely around 50 total submissions (guesstimate).

Sorry if this has already been said (it's getting kinda late here, I have a 9 am econ lecture tomorrow, and I wanted to post before I went to sleep), but...

will people with approved submissions have access to all submissions, accepted or not, or just the approved ones? If the situation is the latter, would it be possible to gain access to the unapproved ones as well?

In past years unapproved submissions of decent quality have been released at the end of summer. It makes sense that unapproved submissions aren't released during the summer as it is expected the submitters are working to improve them for acceptance in a timely manner.

[Random Human]

I think it would be beneficial if unapproved submissions were released. That way obviously the people with access to the SSSS would have more material... and also, if the owner of the unapproved submission doesn't continue to work to improve it... someone can pick off where he/she left off so we could have extra tests. Even while people are working to improve their submission, I don't think it would hurt to upload what they have so far... it benefits the community as a whole.

Please consider,
Random Human

[Zioly]

I think it would be beneficial if unapproved submissions were released. That way obviously the people with access to the SSSS would have more material... and also, if the owner of the unapproved submission doesn't continue to work to improve it... someone can pick off where he/she left off so we could have extra tests. Even while people are working to improve their submission, I don't think it would hurt to upload what they have so far... it benefits the community as a whole.

Please consider,
Random Human

Agreed. Writing tests (or in this case, finishing abandoned and half-baked ones) is a great way to study, and I'm 100% sure a few of my teammates who normally would not study over the summer would if this system were implemented.

[Unome]

if the owner of the unapproved submission doesn't continue to work to improve it... someone can pick off where he/she left off so we could have extra tests.

This is an interesting idea.