From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25803 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2009 20:48:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 25787 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Mar 2009 20:48:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gx0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-gx0-f179.google.com) (209.85.217.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:48:22 +0000 Received: by gxk27 with SMTP id 27so1407156gxk.0 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:48:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.16.74 with SMTP id n10mr299863iba.23.1237409299258; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:48:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090318203455.GO32001@adacore.com> References: <20090318203455.GO32001@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GDB's application for the GSoC From: Thiago Bauermann To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-03/txt/msg00119.txt.bz2 2009/3/18 Joel Brobecker : >> As it turns out, we were not accepted. :-( > > That's too bad. Did they give a reason? No, they didn't. I don't think they will, so we can only speculate. > Or was it too many applications and not enough grants? They always have that situation I think, so there's some selection that has to happen. In the 2009 FAQ they say: "We expect slightly fewer organizations to take part in 2009, as we've capped the number of student participants at 1,000." So the bar this year was higher. Also, they have a "Notes on Organizations Selection Criteria" page [1], and its first bullet says: "1) Have you been in GSoC before and done well? We want to make sure that all of our students have a good experience, and an established track record of success is a great indicator for the future. Keep in mind, though, we vary the mix somewhat each year regardless of how well an organization did in the past. We may vary it even more broadly in the future." So I believe we started with a disadvantage compared to other projects, since most major free software projects have been in the summer of code in the past... -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann [1] http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/orgcriteria