[GSoC] organization feedback

[Hilmar Lapp]

Hi all,

just for the records and for those interested, here's the feedback  
from Leslie (who runs the program at Google's end) on our application  
(this is verbatim from IRC on #gsoc): "good application, good ideas  
list, hilmar does well and is experienced. we just cannot accept  
everyone. i wish i had a more satisfying answer for you."

It's a pretty tough year to apply - Google is reducing the number of  
accepted organizations compared to last year by more than 20, and in  
addition they wanted to accept a few new ones, so a significant number  
of orgs who participated last year would have had to be rejected  
already. There were about 400 applying orgs, of which 150 got accepted.

So we didn't make it among the few new orgs, but achieving that was a  
tall order to start with. It seems like we didn't make any mistake  
that one can easily point at, but we also weren't lucky enough to rise  
to one of the few spots given to new orgs.

On the positive side of things, I'm sure this application got us into  
the books, and given the feedback on a positive note, and we can try  
again and harder next year. The project ideas don't have to be for  
naught; there are other organizations, such as NESCent, Perl  
Foundation, and Python Foundation, that did get accepted and some of  
which have already offered to host those in scope for their  
participation. So if you want to make your project happen and it fits  
underneath one of those (or you can make it fit), it's up to you now  
to take charge of that.

Thanks to everyone who helped getting us in shape, I've enjoyed  
putting this together and I'd be up for it again next year provided  
everyone else is too.

BTW I'm going to make the archives of this list public now.

Cheers,

	-hilmar
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