Re: Google Summer of Code 2008: Final Call

["Jim Whitehead II" <jnwhiteh@...>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Jim Whitehead II <jnwhiteh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Apologies for not posting sooner, but the organization acceptance
>  emails have gone out and the participating list of organizations has
>  been posted on the Google Summer of Code website.  Lua was not one of
>  the 175 out of 500 organizations selected this year so there won't be
>  any formal participation in the program.  I'm waiting to get feedback
>  from the program coordinator so we can better understand why our
>  application wasn't chosen, so we have a better chance of being
>  accepted in the future.
>

Unfortunately, I have still been unable to get the specifics about the
reasons our application was rejected.  The coordinator asked for a
link to our ideas webpage and gave us some feedback on that-- but to
be completely frank it seemed as if she either completely
misunderstood the format, or didn't read the page.

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You have several ideas that have no additional information at all, no
mentor, no description, just a name.  It would have been great to have
those filled out. The ideas themselves seem somewhat underspecified -
it would be helpful to have links to further resources and reading,
and flesh out the ideas a bit more.

There's great advice on constructing a good ideas list here:
http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors

It's wonderful that you have potential mentors listed - ++
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Frankly, I have no idea what she's referring to, as we only have one
project that didn't have a mentor listed, and each project had a
reasonable extensive description (one or two were a bit short, but
they were all there).  In addition, some of the ideas were specified
to a very clear point, so I'm unsure.

Frankly, I think the format of the wiki page and the overall
unprofessional look of the ideas list was a factor, along with the
rather ad-hoc way we approached the entire process.  Hopefully we can
begin putting things together and make a more impressive application
with idea list next year.

Sorry all,

- Jim