[GSoC] GSoC 2013 is ON

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at drycafe.net> wrote:
> Wasn't the number of orgs last year around 180? That would
> mean that the total number of accepted orgs is almost unchanged.

Yes, i checked and its been just under 180 for the last few years.

> However, the announcement on the Google blog says that
> they accepted more than 40 new projects. Since the number
> of accepted orgs for sure didn't rise, this must mean that
> around 40 projects turned over, or almost 1 in every 4.
>
> -hilmar

It does seem Google are trying to cover different ground but
with a fixed budget - and this year we were one of the unlucky
organisations (but not alone in this respect).

Peter