This is great! I read that Google also prioritized organizations that had not participated before, in order to give them more visibility to the whole programmers community. So this is a *big *opportunity gain popularity :)
Congratulations! On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Smalltalkers! > > Maybe you are not aware of what our selection to this year GSoC really > means for the Smalltalk community. And I wasn't aware completely until few > hours. Just to give you an example, even such big organizations like Ruby or > PHP where not selected. From this viewpoint you can see what we have > achieved. > > Some people said and still says that Smalltalk is old and that it is dead. > Ok, we have been selected by the major Informatics and Software company all > over the world. > > The point is that ESUG and the Smalltalk community was selected because of > the seriousness mixed with passion of all the application, project and > ideas. We have an incredible high quality list of ideas and mentors. > > We have a unique opportunity to show the rest of the world why we love > Smalltalk, why it is much better than other alternatives, etc. So, we invite > all of you to make this happens. > > Thanks to everybody for all the congratulations and nice words!!! > > Your GSoC admins > > [email protected] > > http://gsoc2010.esug.org > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> We are incredibly proud to announce that ESUG was selected for the GSoC >> 2010. We have a long list of wonderful projects, mentors and a cool website. >> >> >> We want to thank you to all the people who help us publishing project >> ideas, giving feedback on the submit text or the English, etc. >> >> For the moment, we don't know the slots (amount of projects) that we will >> receive. >> >> Don't worry. We will contact you again very soon to let you know the >> following steps. >> >> Now, prepare yourself. We have to show the rest of the world why we love >> Smalltalk so much :) >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> The very happy GSoC admin team >> > >
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