a) prepare to make a commitment way beyond 3 months
b) or pick a project smaller than a whole new library.
I certainly agree with everything that you've said, but there are some contradictory requirements. We may attract students by offering them opportunities to work on interesting projects, or we may get fewer by offering maintenance projects. I'm certainly willing to list maintenance tasks as project ideas, but not too many have been offered. It's also worth pointing out that Boost has actually been pretty successful at retaining students after August, despite the demanding requirement (or maybe because of). I think 40-60% of previous students are still contributing or moving their libraries toward review. I think that's a pretty good measure. To be honest, I'm not sure how to resolve these issues in any satisfactory way. I do appreciate the 2 cents, though. This discussion is helping me build a bigger picture view of the requirements. Maybe we'll do better next year :) Andrew Sutton andrew.n.sutton@gmail.com