On 04/06/2012 07:13 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > The deadline for students to apply to Google Summer of Code has now > passed. We received 41 substantive proposals*, but of course can only > accept a small subset of those. We don't have that many willing > mentors, we certainly won't get that many slots from Google, and I want > to accept only students who are very likely to succeed. > > Early next week I'll be in touch with mentors to finish ranking and > grading the proposals. Also next week, several applicants who still > haven't found mentors will be looking for experienced developers to fall > in love with their proposals. :-) > > We'll announce the acceptances on April 23rd. > > * And 22 that were spam, copy-and-paste from our ideas list, incredibly > vague, etc. In 2011 we only got about 24 consideration-worthy > proposals, so this year's quite an increase. Thanks to everyone who did > outreach and who helped people apply.
Update: Google gave us nine slots, so we will accept, at most, nine students. We're now evaluating the proposals and students. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
