From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Sorace Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_C1062D88-8756-4C96-97AC-91CBF4211004"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:11:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: Message-Id: <4A169640-F9F7-4B15-804C-6F93F048AFE8@9srv.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6ef5f8c2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail=_C1062D88-8756-4C96-97AC-91CBF4211004 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Folks: Friday was the meeting for rejected organizations to get some feedback on their applications and supporting material. I was able to attend on Plan 9's behalf. The news is overall positive, if not terribly satisfying. The folks at Google were quite happy with both our application and our ideas page (the main supporting item). We fell to what was a common refrain in the meeting: they simply had to cut a number of organizations they liked in order to make room for new organizations. In some ways that's not a terribly satisfying answer, as it doesn't leave us with anything particular we can address, but it does speak well of our efforts. Certainly the folks at Google were not shy about giving more pointed feedback to other organizations in the meeting where they had any. If we were to look anywhere for areas to improve, based on the trends of comments to other organizations I'd suggest we could put a little more work into making the descriptions of ideas on our page more consistently filled out. For returning orgs, once a sort of minimum bar is passed for the application the competition really does seem to be largely focused on that page. In the next few days (I'm currently traveling), I'll post my notes from sitting through feedback from 20+ other orgs, as well as a transcript of our session, to the wiki, off the GSoC page. Anthony --Apple-Mail=_C1062D88-8756-4C96-97AC-91CBF4211004 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk9x9NwACgkQyrb52b5lrs7OoACfauZdvO0IE5ookCa3456G8Bhy Xg8An1kxUp/Hs56DZu/TRWp+U5O1Wgm1 =8y0I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_C1062D88-8756-4C96-97AC-91CBF4211004--