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 th

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 vi

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 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 thoug

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

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

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 activ

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 f

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

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- > > d-announce wrote: > > > > > […] > > > Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or G

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 s

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

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). >

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 wrote: > […] > 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 tr

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 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 su

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 b

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

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

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 som

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

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 m

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 I

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

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 Go

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 her

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 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, a

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

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

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. Jus

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

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread weaselcat 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, a

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 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 h

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 wo

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 ...

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, a

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