That's really good news! Thanks for sharing, Quim. I'm looking forward to the next steps now. :)
Cheers everybody! On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Pragun Bhutani http://pragunbhutani.in Skype : pragun.bhutani _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
