Google Summer of Code 2011

[Jonathan "Duke" Leto]

Howdy,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does it cost the organization any money to have the project director
> sent to Google HQ? Parrot Foundation really doesn't have any money for
> that kind of expenditure.

I already answered this invalid data in previous email.

> For anybody who follows the GSOC mailing lists, there has been some
> talk that this year Google is trying to increase participation from
> smaller organizations. Because of that push, it might be easier for
> Parrot to get accepted as a mentoring organization by itself this year
> if we choose to go that route.
>
> That said, we've done very well in the past few years, attracting as
> many projects as the Perl Foundation has. Considering the relative
> sizes of Perl and Parrot communities, we've done abnormally well in
> the past few years. Keep in mind that Perl probably gets a quota for
> projects than we would by ourselves, so it's hard to tell whether we
> would get as many spaces without being under the Perl Foundation
> umbrella.
>
> Lots of things to think about with this topic, and it all presumes
> that Perl and/or Parrot would even get accepted as a mentoring
> organization this year. I strongly suspect they will, but we shouldn't
> get ahead of ourselves.

I would say that the Parrot Foundation has a good record with mentoring
students, as well as being picked as one of only 20 orgs to participate
in Google Code-In. While this doesn't make us a shoe-in, I don't think
we should worry about not getting accepted due to splitting off from TPF.

I have no clue how many slots we will get, though, since they seem to be
thinking about changing the size/structure of GSoC a bit.

Duke


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