[GSoC] organization feedback

[Mark A. Jensen]

Thanks for your hard work on the application, Hilmar- 
onward- MAJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hilmar Lapp" <hlapp at gmx.net>
To: <gsoc at lists.open-bio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:20 AM
Subject: [GSoC] organization feedback


> 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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