On Monday 22 March 2010 18:29:45 Vlatko Kosturjak wrote: > Tim Brown wrote: > > On Friday 19 March 2010 09:34:42 Felix Wolfsteller wrote: > >> Yesterday I received a personal eMail from Google. They consider OpenVAS > >> a too healthy project with a community that a program like GSoC 2010 > >> could not make greater. Especially compared to the "competitors" > >> regarding available slots for organizations, like Debian[1], Gnome[2], > >> KDE[3], Mozilla[4], Nmap Security Scanner[5], The GNU Project[6] and > >> Ubuntu[7]. They decided to not go for The OpenVAS Project this year. > > > > Not a surprise TBH, I think nmap is their pet project in the security > > arena. Do they give any reasons this year or is it like other years where > > there is no feedback? > > "Thank you for submitting "The OpenVAS Project" organization application > to Google Summer of Code 2010. Unfortunately, we were unable to accept > your organization's application at this time. We received many more > applications for the program than we are able to accommodate, and we > would encourage you to reapply for future instances of the program. > > Best regards, > Google Open Source Programs" > > I guess Felix got the same.
Yes I got the same. To answer the "why", my guess is that they stick with projects that did well in the past and try to offer students a wide range of possible tasks, therefore looking at the preliminary ideas list of each student. Anyway, marvelling why who chose what is a bit a waste of time, imho. We didnt make it, other great project that participate since years did make it. Next year. -- felix > Kost > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-devel mailing list > Openvas-devel@wald.intevation.org > http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-devel -- Felix Wolfsteller | ++49 541 335083-783 | http://www.intevation.de/ PGP Key: 39DE0100 Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-devel mailing list Openvas-devel@wald.intevation.org http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-devel
