[GSoC] GSoC 2013 is ON

[Pjotr Prins]

SciRuby has been so kind to allow us to merge some BioRuby project
ideas into their GSoC organisation. I suggest every project could try
that. Having experienced mentors is an asset to any organisation.

Pj.

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 08:00:29PM +0100, Peter Cock wrote:
> 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
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