That's awesome, Quim. Thanks for all your efforts, support, encouragement and guidance so far.
The best is yet to come! May you enjoy many more alcohol-free drinks in celebration of future milestones passed. Cheers! Siebrand On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > Google just allocated slots and... > > > On 05/05/2013 09:23 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > >> Based on the feedback received from the mentors we are requesting >> >> 11 min >> 21 max >> > > ... WE HAVE GOT 21 SLOTS ALLOWED!!!! > > First: congratulations to everybody involved: mentors AND students. This > number reflects succinctly how much someone like Google trusts you. > > Second: this relaxes a lot our selection process. Between this and OPW we > can accommodate many good proposals. > > Third: still, we will keep standards high as we have done so far. Having > 21 slots doesn't mean that we will take them blindly. We will continue > asking questions to mentors and students about the feasibility of each > proposal and we will consider accepted only those that have all the > foundations in place. > > Last but not least: remember the important point about confidentiality. > Now several projects might look pretty obvious candidates but this doesn't > authorize anybody to leak / pre-announce our decisions made. Google is > still the one that must announce all accepted GSoC projects first. > > PS: and now, if you don't mind, I'll go get some sophisticated > alcohol-free drink to celebrate. Salut! > > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > -- Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Language Engineering Wikimedia Foundation M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
