Folks:
Friday was the meeting for rejected organizations to get some
feedback on their applications and supporting material. I was able
to attend on Plan 9's behalf. The news is overall positive, if not
terribly satisfying. The folks at Google were quite happy with both
our application and our ideas page (the main supporting item). We
fell to what was a common refrain in the meeting: they simply had to
cut a number of organizations they liked in order to make room for
new organizations.
In some ways that's not a terribly satisfying answer, as it doesn't
leave us with anything particular we can address, but it does speak
well of our efforts. Certainly the folks at Google were not shy about
giving more pointed feedback to other organizations in the meeting
where they had any. If we were to look anywhere for areas to
improve, based on the trends of comments to other organizations
I'd suggest we could put a little more work into making the
descriptions of ideas on our page more consistently filled out. For
returning orgs, once a sort of minimum bar is passed for the
application the competition really does seem to be largely focused
on that page.
In the next few days (I'm currently traveling), I'll post my notes
from sitting through feedback from 20+ other orgs, as well as a
transcript of our session, to the wiki, off the GSoC page.
Anthony
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