Re: SoC git projects announced

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Apr 12, 2007, 16:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20070412164357.GD12979@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200704120845.56793.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sure those involved already know, but for the rest of us - it looks 
> like we have three projects in the SoC (assuming I'm reading it right):
> 
> http://code.google.com/soc/git/about.html

Google granted us 3 student projects this summer. We had 18 applications this year, and at least 8 of them were really quite good. Our summer of code mentoring 'team' (Sam Vilain, Johannes Schindelin, Petr Baudis, Martin Langhoff, Martin Waitz, Brian Gernhardt, and I) were really hoping that Google would grant us more projects, as we really wanted to accept them.

Google accepted over 900 students this year, from a pool of over 6000 applications. Competition for slots was definately fierce. Organizations received about 15% of their total applications as slots; Those orgs that were more popular (and received more applications) were given more slots than those that were less popular. I guess Git isn't very popular. :-)

I'd like to thank our mentors for their efforts during the application review process, and all 18 of our students for applying. It really was a very difficult decision for us to pick just 3.

So with all that said, I'd like to welcome our students, and encourage them to get in touch with their mentors. Though I think Dscho might be in the process of moving between countries right now... so he might not be too responsive to email for a few more days.

-- 
Shawn.