[BioSQL-l] [Bioperl-l] OBF not accepted for GSoC 2013

[Leon Timmermans]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Sadly, our application got rejected by GSoC this year. I am not sure
> what the reason was, but I am convinced our application was similar to
> that of other years. Maybe the project ideas could have been better
> presented. I am not sure at this stage. I'll make a list of successful
> projects to see if we can digest some truths.

Something similar happened to The Perl Foundation last year, so we
asked them why? We had been a well-performing organization (100%
success rate in the preceding year) that put a lot of effort in our
submission and had a solid community behind us.

The answer was not quite what we expected. It had little to do with
the quality of the application, but everything with them wanting new
blood in the SOC. The same had happened to other projects I'm told.

Leon