Hi, A little status update: The participation deadline for organisations passed yesterday.
It's all over now -- those who didn't contribute to the organisation application and student application form drafts (which includes YOU), have managed to get away. Oh, and yes: Amazingly, I actually managed to hand in my^H^Hour application before the deadline. What is to be done now is waiting to see whether I^Hwe get accepted. Praying is an option. Bribing google employees is another one. I must say that I was totally overwhelmed by the amount of help I got from our "community" with creating the drafts. I'm rather used to getting quite little response on such things; but this exceeded all my expectations. The total amount of improvements, suggestions, comments contributed by others amounts to an increadibly round number -- the most round number of all: Zero. Nobody contributed as much as a single remark. Not one. But wait, I'm too hasty with my praise! After all, there is also the project ideas list ( http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/community/gsoc/project_ideas/ ), which is still open. Plenty of chance still for everyone to not help. Though it's a sad sad business, as the previous zero score is not achievable anymore -- someone already contributed a bit to the project list. Guess who? Last year's SoC student. (Thanks Fredrik!) Do you think I'm bitter? No, not much. Not after having had a tolerably good sleep. A tolerably good sleep can make up for a considerable amount of disappointment, believe me. Now enough of that. Let's move on to something more satisfying. Like, say, staring out of the window. -antrik-
