Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009

["Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>]

> For whatever mixture of factors, we ended up "below the line"
> last year.  This year more groups are expected to apply, and
> Google has indicated they plan to support fewer groups and
> fewer students this year as compared to last year.  Each of
> those trends seems likely to push us further "below the line"
> if we submit a similar application again this year.

As it turns out, I was in a presentation today given by the
key SOC people from Google.  The thing that really caught
my attention was that they made a point of saying that they
gave particular preference to projects/groups that would
put forward mentors that they could be confident would
have a successful project completion.  That's not to say
that they don't have confidence in the mentors from Plan9
and Inferno, but that does seems to be a lot of what goes
into the placement of that line.

As to how many groups and students, they didn't say anything
about that other than to show that each year the numbers had
increased.  They also said the money pool was planned to be
the same as last year.

BLS