Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > Following my call for GSoC would-be mentors we got exactly one > offer, from Russell Winder. Thanks! (There has been no response > whatsoever on the czardom position.) > > Needless to say, if we don't have a good pool of mentors we'll be > forced to retract our GSoC submission. > > Walter and I are are also in crunch mode reviewing DConf submissions > (subject of an upcoming post). I am overdue on reviewing a new book > proposal on D literally today. All of this takes away from other > high scrutiny work that we are, rightly or wrongly, perceived as the > bottleneck of. > > "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die," the > saying goes. There has been lively debate recently in this forum > about how our community can organize itself better, during which > there was no shortage of advice regarding things that should be > done. Now here we are - laid as bare as it gets in front of us all > is an opportunity for each and every one of us to make a large and > positive impact on the future of D. There's no better opportunity to > act on an obviously good chance to push the D language further. > > I'll make tonight an executive decision about our participation to > GSoC this year. A strong GSoC leader would be fantastic. At the very > minimum we need a handful of mentors. Your turn.
In case you submit the application consider adding http://dlang.org/gsoc2014.html. Currently it's dead but linked from http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2014_Ideas. Jens
