Hi, Below Google's feedback. ------------------ Unfortunately, as usual we had to make a lot of hard decisions this year as we always do, and your org was one of them. We also felt that your ideas page could have used some work this year. We would like ideas pages in our preferred format http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/making-your-ideas-page/ and to be a bit more fleshed out than yours was this year. I hope you'll consider applying again in a future year!
Cheers, Carol ------------------ Our ideas page structure was copied from 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. We never heard that it was not formatted correctly... OK, now we do! :) Here's a good page outlining Google's process for selection: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/org-application/ They try to make it clear that no org can expect to be accepted every year. That's only fair. No hard feelings here, GSoC was always a gift, not a right. On the GSoC mentor-org mailing list someone mentioned (two years ago) that their org skipped a GSoC once, just because they were feeling that effect was wearing off - mentors not sufficiently being motivated either. To some extent I think we have a similar effect going on... GSoC was turning into a burden as much as an opportunity for our organization. For the hardest working contributors it meant every year that their hands were tied during the summer. They now are free for other tasks - something that can also bring good things for everyone. As for me, instead of GSoC coordination I will spend time with the module teams on streamlining our organization to make it easier for more developers to come on board. Bug tracker duties and patch reviewing seem to eat up our energy and lust-for-coding too much as well. Too few people do too much now... Laters, -Ton- -------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands Begin forwarded message: > From: Google Open Source Programs Office <ospot...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Blender Foundation] Your organization application has been > rejected. > Date: 3 March, 2015 0:20:40 CET > To: Ton Roosendaal <t...@blender.org> > > Hi Ton, > > Unfortunately, as usual we had to make a lot of hard decisions this year as > we always do, and your org was one of them. We also felt that your ideas page > could have used some work this year. We would like ideas pages in our > preferred format > http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/making-your-ideas-page/ and to be a > bit more fleshed out than yours was this year. I hope you'll consider > applying again in a future year! > > Cheers, > Carol > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Ton Roosendaal <t...@blender.org> wrote: > Hi OSPO team, > > We've been in the program since the beginning. I realize that every year is a > special gift, we can't demand anything. Nevertheless, could you share what > made you decide to not select BF this year? > > Thanks, > > -Ton- > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org - www.blender.org > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute > Entrepotdok 57A - 1018AD Amsterdam - The Netherlands > > > > On 2 Mar, 2015, at 19:54, no-re...@google-melange.appspotmail.com wrote: > > > Thank you for submitting Blender Foundation's application to Google Summer > > of Code 2015. Unfortunately, we were unable to accept your organization's > > application at this time. Every year we receive many more applications than > > we are able to accommodate, and we would encourage you to reapply for > > future instances of the program. > > > > If you would like some general feedback on why your organization was not > > accepted, please consider attending the IRC meeting in #gsoc on Freenode on > > Friday, 6 March, 2015 at 16:00 UTC. Please note that the feedback meeting > > will be limited to the first 50 organizations to queue up (queuing in the > > channel will begin at 15:30 UTC). You are also more than welcome to just > > email the OSPO team at ospot...@gmail.com directly for email feedback about > > your application as well. > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > > > -- > Google Open Source Programs Office _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
