Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce 
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[…]
 Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I suppose we 
 are on even footing with our main competition.

It's called Nim now. I suspect there was a rationale for the change, 
but I am not sure it was worth it.

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Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:49 +, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce 
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[…]
 I will try to keep hectoring folks, but you all get a break at least 
 for the summer :o)

:-)

I guess I don't get a dreadful t-shirt this year which costs more to 
ship than it's worth!

I think the trick here is to assume an element of arbitrariness in the 
decision making, and just to put up a proposal next year with some 
good doable projects on an appealing student accessible website.

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Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:51 +, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce 
wrote:
 
[…]
 I sent a message asking for a bit more in-depth feedback, we will 
 see how that turns out!

I suspect it is like any decision making process where there are N 
places for M applications and N  M, many get culled by fairly 
arbitrary criteria simply to get the numbers down and make the 
decision making tractable.

We are going through this right now with the DevoxxUK 2015 programme 
committee, and many of us have a fear we might have missed a good 
proposal in the mass culling needed to get few enough selected not to 
have an overburdened programme.   

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Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 19:37 -0500, Ben Boeckel via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 23:57:56 +, Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-
 announce wrote:
  I remember someone somewhere suggested to make our own summer of 
  code (however I don't know how this would look like).
 
 Fedora runs its own[1].

But this is funded either by GSoC or RH.

 --Ben
 
 [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_SIG
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Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:36 +, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
 […]
 
 List of accepted projects
 https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015
 
 a lot of other languages got accepted :(

Looks like Groovy has been rejected and yet Ruby gets lots. Must be a 
conspiracy :-)

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Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 02/03/2015 23:00, CraigDillabaugh wrote:

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 22:36:43 UTC, weaselcat wrote:

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:

Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer
of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this,
especially to those who volunteered to mentor.

I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that
here once/if I get something from them.

If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post
again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and
any feedback they provide.

Cheers,

Craig


List of accepted projects
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015

a lot of other languages got accepted :(


Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I suppose we are
on even footing with our main competition.


Not just Rust, the whole Mozilla was not accepted either:
http://blog.queze.net/post/2015/03/03/Mozilla-not-accepted-for-Google-Summer-of-Code-2015

Interesting quote:
People who have observed the list carefully may have noticed that there 
are fewer accepted organizations this year: 137 (down from 190 in 2014 
and 177 in 2013). Other organizations that have participated 
successfully several times are also not in the 2015 list (eg. Linux 
Foundation, Tor, ...).



--
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Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 09:03:44 UTC, weaselcat wrote:

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:14:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +, CraigDillabaugh via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:



[…]
Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I 
suppose we are on even footing with our main competition.


It's called Nim now. I suspect there was a rationale for the 
change,

but I am not sure it was worth it.


The rationale was that Nimrod has a fairly negative meaning 
attached to it in American(?) English. I'm not sure if it 
exists in other English dialects.


In Canada (were are about 1/2 way between the Brits + Americans) 
at least it was/is a derogatory term for someone who wasn't too 
bright. I always thought the name was a bit awkward because of 
that, and I should have remembered that they renamed it Nim.




Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:09:30 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:51 +, CraigDillabaugh via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:



[…]
I sent a message asking for a bit more in-depth feedback, we 
will see how that turns out!


I suspect it is like any decision making process where there 
are N

places for M applications and N  M, many get culled by fairly
arbitrary criteria simply to get the numbers down and make the
decision making tractable.

We are going through this right now with the DevoxxUK 2015 
programme
committee, and many of us have a fear we might have missed a 
good
proposal in the mass culling needed to get few enough selected 
not to

have an overburdened programme.


I imagine you are correct.  I understand that Google can't take 
everyone, and they no doubt have some tough choices, so I don't 
feel that we have been unfairly treated in any way.  I am hoping 
though we can get some feedback so that next year's entry can be 
better though.


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Ben Boeckel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 08:20:41 +, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
 But this is funded either by GSoC or RH.

I don't think Fedora even requests money from GSoC itself anymore. Red
Hat funding it makes sense though. And it's not like there aren't
companies with 9+ zeros active in and aware of this community. And one
notable one in particular has decent multipliers over even Red Hat's
size. I see no reason why targeted GSoC-like things can't be organized
by those companies besides a presumed lack of ROI.

--Ben


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 3/3/15 9:53 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 17:40:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

On 2015-03-03 14:45, CraigDillabaugh wrote:


That would require some serious chutzpah!  Are you volunteering
to mentor that?


Not really. That was not completely serious proposal, hence the
smiley. I would probably need to know vibe.d as well, which I don't.


I guess I should have added a smiley myself, I had figured as much.

I did get feedback from Google.  It was as follows:

==
Hi Craig,


We wanted your ideas page to be formatted in our preferred format and to
have each idea fleshed out with potential mentors, difficulty level,
required skills, etc. That would have helped. However, largely this was
a matter of us just not having enough space to accept all the orgs we
wanted to except. Good luck next year!

==

Sort of odd, since we had ideas listed with potential mentors,
difficulty levels, and so forth ... feels sort of like a generic
response again.

Maybe next year I will have to use blink tags on those parts of the
list :o)


Urgh. -- Andrei



Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 17:40:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

On 2015-03-03 14:45, CraigDillabaugh wrote:


That would require some serious chutzpah!  Are you volunteering
to mentor that?


Not really. That was not completely serious proposal, hence the 
smiley. I would probably need to know vibe.d as well, which I 
don't.


I guess I should have added a smiley myself, I had figured as 
much.


I did get feedback from Google.  It was as follows:

==
Hi Craig,


We wanted your ideas page to be formatted in our preferred format 
and to have each idea fleshed out with potential mentors, 
difficulty level, required skills, etc. That would have helped. 
However, largely this was a matter of us just not having enough 
space to accept all the orgs we wanted to except. Good luck next 
year!


==

Sort of odd, since we had ideas listed with potential mentors, 
difficulty levels, and so forth ... feels sort of like a generic 
response again.


Maybe next year I will have to use blink tags on those parts of 
the list :o)


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 13:32 +, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce 
wrote:
 
[…]
 I imagine you are correct.  I understand that Google can't take 
 everyone, and they no doubt have some tough choices, so I don't feel 
 that we have been unfairly treated in any way.  I am hoping though 
 we can get some feedback so that next year's entry can be better 
 though.

I am sure that in some sense many projects are treated unfairly, it is 
just a sort of arbitrary unfairness rather than any specifically 
targeted.

Clearly D satisfies the is not a minuscule niche, has reasonable 
mentors, has projects, is FOSS, and the fail of could fund this 
some other way. My guess would be the can be done in 8 weeks by a 
student was seen as the problem for too many of the proposals.

It will be interesting to see if the total number of internships is 
smaller to match the decrease in organizations.

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Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 2015-03-03 14:45, CraigDillabaugh wrote:


That would require some serious chutzpah!  Are you volunteering
to mentor that?


Not really. That was not completely serious proposal, hence the smiley. 
I would probably need to know vibe.d as well, which I don't.


--
/Jacob Carlborg


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:37:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2015-03-02 20:39, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce 
wrote:


Google's Melange site is a disgrace, it is truly horrible. I 
suspect

it is something written by someone who is a failure as a Web
applications developer.


Use that as a project for next year, rewrite the site in D and 
make it useable :)


That would require some serious chutzpah!  Are you volunteering
to mentor that?

It would almost be worth having our application rejected just to
have that in our list of projects ... just think of all the great
PR we could generate!





Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 2015-03-02 20:39, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:


Google's Melange site is a disgrace, it is truly horrible. I suspect
it is something written by someone who is a failure as a Web
applications developer.


Use that as a project for next year, rewrite the site in D and make it 
useable :)


--
/Jacob Carlborg


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:14:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +, CraigDillabaugh via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:



[…]
Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I 
suppose we are on even footing with our main competition.


It's called Nim now. I suspect there was a rationale for the 
change,

but I am not sure it was worth it.


The rationale was that Nimrod has a fairly negative meaning 
attached to it in American(?) English. I'm not sure if it exists 
in other English dialects.


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 09:03 +, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
 On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:14:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
  On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-
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  […]
   Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I
   suppose we are on even footing with our main competition.
  
  It's called Nim now. I suspect there was a rationale for the
  change,
  but I am not sure it was worth it.
 
 The rationale was that Nimrod has a fairly negative meaning
 attached to it in American(?) English. I'm not sure if it exists in 
 other English dialects.

Apparently pig, pork, and sausage are now banned words as well.

Ho hum…

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Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:39:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 19:10 +, CraigDillabaugh via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:



[…]
Tying to keep things positive, at least I don't have to spend 
a good chunk of my summer working with that horrible Melange 
site, and the rest of you won't have to put up with my GSoC 
pestering ...


Google's Melange site is a disgrace, it is truly horrible. I 
suspect

it is something written by someone who is a failure as a Web
applications developer.

Having you hectoring us makes things happen, do not stop doing 
this

please.


I will try to keep hectoring folks, but you all get a break at 
least for the summer :o)


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google 
Summer of Code was rejected.


Apparently Blender didn't make it either:
https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/57247337964832


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 22:36:43 UTC, weaselcat wrote:

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google 
Summer of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped 
out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor.


I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post 
that here once/if I get something from them.


If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this 
post again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from 
this year and any feedback they provide.


Cheers,

Craig


List of accepted projects
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015

a lot of other languages got accepted :(


Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I suppose 
we are on even footing with our main competition.


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 20:56:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

On 3/2/2015 11:08 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google 
Summer of Code was
rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, 
especially to those who

volunteered to mentor.

I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post 
that here once/if

I get something from them.

If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this 
post again next
year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and any 
feedback they provide.



Thank you very much for taking the initiative and lead on this, 
Craig. Having done this myself (with Andrei), I know how much 
work it is. I'm sorry it didn't work out in our favor, but it's 
important that you tried.


Thanks for the kind words.


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:50:07 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

On 03/02/2015 08:08 PM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google 
Summer of

Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this,
especially to those who volunteered to mentor.


Just read that as well, it's a pity.
Thanks for all the good work Craig.

I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post 
that here

once/if I get something from them.


You sent them a mail? Let's hope we get some qualified feedback.
I'll try to attend the IRC feedback meeting as well.

-Martin


Martin, thanks.  If you can get in on the IRC that would be 
great.  Google returned my message but it was basically We had a 
lot of hard decisions, and your organization was one of those 
... I bet everyone who failed an application gets the same 
feedback :o)


I sent a message asking for a bit more in-depth feedback, we will 
see how that turns out!


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 3/2/15 11:08 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:

Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of
Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this,
especially to those who volunteered to mentor.

I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here
once/if I get something from them.

If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post again
next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and any
feedback they provide.


Thanks, Craig. I'm glad you asked, please follow through politely if at 
first you don't get an answer; Carol is very nice but (a) at this point 
in the GSoC timeline she's super busy, and (b) she won't reply to any 
question about rejection that alleges unfairness. So a kind request for 
what we can do in the future to improve our chances might fare well.


We've done well, I think, in 2011 and 2012 (except for the one student 
who failed to deliver) so something about our reporting might have 
failed GSoC's expectations.



Andrei



Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/03/2015 01:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 We've done well, I think, in 2011 and 2012 (except for the one student
 who failed to deliver) so something about our reporting might have
 failed GSoC's expectations.

Are there some documents/emails available. Will get back to you after
the IRC, maybe we can find out more.


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google 
Summer of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out 
on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor.


I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post 
that here once/if I get something from them.


If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this 
post again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this 
year and any feedback they provide.


Cheers,

Craig


Respect for your uphill battle.

I remember someone somewhere suggested to make our own summer of 
code (however I don't know how this would look like). As for a 
free money from corporations I'm  skeptical in general.

http://imgur.com/W5AMy0P

Nevertheless, great job.

Cheers
Piotrek


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Ben Boeckel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 23:57:56 +, Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce 
wrote:
 I remember someone somewhere suggested to make our own summer of 
 code (however I don't know how this would look like).

Fedora runs its own[1].

--Ben

[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_SIG


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 3/2/15 2:36 PM, weaselcat wrote:

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:

Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer
of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this,
especially to those who volunteered to mentor.

I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that
here once/if I get something from them.

If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post
again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and
any feedback they provide.

Cheers,

Craig


List of accepted projects
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015

a lot of other languages got accepted :(


Comparing our application with that of the accepted language projects 
might yield some insight. I ran a cursory read of Clojure's idea page 
and on first sight it seems comparable to ours'. -- Andrei


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 3/03/2015 8:08 a.m., CraigDillabaugh wrote:

Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of
Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this,
especially to those who volunteered to mentor.

I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here
once/if I get something from them.

If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post again
next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and any
feedback they provide.

Cheers,

Craig


You did a good job. I don't think it was your fault.
But as others have mentioned, maybe we should run our own.


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 01:07:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

On 03/03/2015 01:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Comparing our application with that of the accepted language 
projects
might yield some insight. I ran a cursory read of Clojure's 
idea page

and on first sight it seems comparable to ours'. -- Andrei


Indeed, this year our ideas page and the mentors list were much 
better.

http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas

http://scala-lang.org/gsoc/2015.html


I will definitely have to check out the winning bids from other 
languages for 2015 and 'borrow' some ideas for next year's 
version.




Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 01:03:21 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

On 03/03/2015 01:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
We've done well, I think, in 2011 and 2012 (except for the one 
student
who failed to deliver) so something about our reporting might 
have

failed GSoC's expectations.


Are there some documents/emails available. Will get back to you 
after

the IRC, maybe we can find out more.


There isn't really much, just our proposal/mentors lists.  
Haven't heard anything extra from Google. I had one IRC chat with 
the Google people, but it was a technical one about who to work 
with Melange - surprise :o)




Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/03/2015 01:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 Comparing our application with that of the accepted language projects
 might yield some insight. I ran a cursory read of Clojure's idea page
 and on first sight it seems comparable to ours'. -- Andrei

Indeed, this year our ideas page and the mentors list were much better.
http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas

http://scala-lang.org/gsoc/2015.html


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 00:45:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

On 3/2/15 2:36 PM, weaselcat wrote:

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google 
Summer
of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on 
this,

especially to those who volunteered to mentor.

I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will 
post that

here once/if I get something from them.

If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this 
post
again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this 
year and

any feedback they provide.

Cheers,

Craig


List of accepted projects
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015

a lot of other languages got accepted :(


Comparing our application with that of the accepted language 
projects might yield some insight. I ran a cursory read of 
Clojure's idea page and on first sight it seems comparable to 
ours'. -- Andrei


Haskell's page just seems to be its bug tracker?


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 3/2/2015 11:08 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:

Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was
rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who
volunteered to mentor.

I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here once/if
I get something from them.

If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post again next
year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and any feedback they 
provide.



Thank you very much for taking the initiative and lead on this, Craig. Having 
done this myself (with Andrei), I know how much work it is. I'm sorry it didn't 
work out in our favor, but it's important that you tried.


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google 
Summer of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out 
on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor.


I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post 
that here once/if I get something from them.


If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this 
post again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this 
year and any feedback they provide.


Cheers,

Craig


Tying to keep things positive, at least I don't have to spend a 
good chunk of my summer working with that horrible Melange site, 
and the rest of you won't have to put up with my GSoC pestering 
...


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 19:10 +, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce 
wrote:
 
[…]
 Tying to keep things positive, at least I don't have to spend a good 
 chunk of my summer working with that horrible Melange site, and the 
 rest of you won't have to put up with my GSoC pestering ...

Google's Melange site is a disgrace, it is truly horrible. I suspect 
it is something written by someone who is a failure as a Web 
applications developer.

Having you hectoring us makes things happen, do not stop doing this 
please.

-- 
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GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce
Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google 
Summer of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out 
on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor.


I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post 
that here once/if I get something from them.


If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post 
again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year 
and any feedback they provide.


Cheers,

Craig


Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/02/2015 08:08 PM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
 Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of
 Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this,
 especially to those who volunteered to mentor.

Just read that as well, it's a pity.
Thanks for all the good work Craig.

 I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here
 once/if I get something from them.

You sent them a mail? Let's hope we get some qualified feedback.
I'll try to attend the IRC feedback meeting as well.

-Martin