Hi Mateusz,
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
Can someone that has been around for a bit longer comment on what level of experience with Haskell and underlying concepts is usually expected from candidates? Are applications discarded simply based on the applicant not having much previous experience in the target area? What is the level of the competition for places on the projects?
We don't have a fix bar for "things you need to known when you apply". Rather we try to guess whether the student can accomplish the project he/she is applying for, based on whatever evidence we have e.g. contribution to other projects, released libraries on Hackage, and other forms of community participation. Since we typically have more proposals than slots we will rank students both based on how impactful we think the project will be and how likely we think it is that the student will proceed. Both these qualities map onto a single number that we use to stack rank proposals.