That is indeed true. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to nag google, and it
might even help. But I don't think it would change this year's outcome.
I think the key to getting a grant like this is to know what they are
looking for and tailor the grant to that. It would be useful if
someone tried to find any materials from the successful projects and
report back what they learned. I tried to do that in the past.
.hc
On Mar 20, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Rich E wrote:
Of course it would be nice to do the projects regardless of funding,
but in reality they just won't get the same attention to detail and
thoroughness. I don't have a job except through grants like this..
I'm still all for making apython libpd module... but who knows when
summer rolls around and i'm broke.
Do you think it is any good to question/complain to google about not
getting accepted two years in a row? I looked at some of the other
project pages and not only is the pd application just as good, I think
the proposed projects are much more valuable to the open source
community. I don't want to name anything in specific, but I saw some
well funded projects that only proposed various bug fixes, that were
accepted (literally there is a project that says "go through the bugs
list and fix whatever you can).
regards,
Rich
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<[email protected]> wrote:
So now we have a nice collection of projects sketched out from the
GSoC
application, let's encourage people to take them on. If anyone
wants to get
involved with Pd development, take a look at the project ideas and
if you
are interested, then ask about them on the list and we can get
started.
http://puredata.info/dev/summer-of-code/GoogleSummerOfCodeIdeas2009
I think next time someone else should take on the GSoC application
process.
I'm 2 for 2 at not getting it, I've never had much luck with
grants. And
we have lots of well-sketched out projects. We should probably
chuck the
application part and start from scratch.
.hc
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