[Kstars-devel] GSoC slots

[Rafal Kulaga]

Hi everybody,

+1 to this. I would also like to add that we have received 3 proposals
based on the same project idea (WUT & star hopping) and they are all
really good. It was hard to pick the best one.

Cheers,
Rafal



2012/4/11 Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> I suppose all you students are on this mailing list. This is that part
> of the timeline when the Google distributes its limited slots to open
> source projects, and large open source projects distribute those even
> more limited precious slots to various proposals in KDE. While
> students owe their "allegiance" only to the project and their summer
> job, mentors have to see the interest of both KDE and the open source
> community at large, and the students at the same time. It's hard to be
> completely fair to one party without doing some injustice to the
> other. That's part of the reason I usually recommend that students
> apply to multiple projects (despite that not being in the interest of
> the organization), because you shouldn't lose out just because of
> other factors.
>
> Let us hope that all turns out well at the end of the day, but I'm
> just writing this to prepare us all in advance and point out to you
> that if we didn't pick you, it doesn't mean that you weren't good
> enough to do a GSoC. It's just that there are too many factors
> involved in picking a proposal -- not merit alone. I hope y'all will
> understand this. We'll be happy to have all of you contribute to
> KStars / KDE in general and I'm sure there will be a lot of people in
> every KDE project willing to invest a whole lot of time in making you
> a contributor, irrespective of whether you were given one of those
> precious GSoC slots or not.
>
> I feel bad for it even before any decision is taken by Google, even as
> we build up our list of proposals ordered by desirability (which
> usually amounts to many factors -- KDE's overall good, proposals'
> merit, conflicting proposals, number of slots we can expect,
> mentor-power that we have), which is why I felt I should send this
> mail out. Please do not assume that our selection implies anything
> about your abilities.
>
> This year has been amongst the better ones in terms of good proposals.
>
> Regards
> Akarsh
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