On 15/01/2014 10:04, Adrien Nader wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014, Yotam Barnoy wrote:
>> Dear List
>>
>> Are there plans to apply for GSOC mentorship this year? Searching online
>> yielded only a rejected application from 2011. Applications for mentor
>> organizations are due February 14th.
> Then, if nothing has been started yet, it's probably already too late.
> GSoC is fairly constraining and time-consuming. Nowadays, projects which
> manage to do it have actually gotten experienced at it and this makes it
> more difficult for new participants: they don't only have to do things
> well, they have to do things better than projects which have been doing
> it for 10 years.
>
> There's also a feeling that Google doesn't care about what happens in
> OCaml-land (that's mostly speculation).
I don't believe that Google (as a company) cares about Tor, yet the Tor
project has been a mentoring organization since 2007.
However, I have to agree that it is probably too late to prepare a
(solid) application.

> I believe it might be worth trying again. Many things have changed and
> the projects that could be worked on now might appeal more to the GSoC
> organizers. That would be for 2015 in my opinion though.
I completely agree.


Kind regards,
Nicolas