I'm involved with another organization, Terasology -- http://terasology.org/, that submitted a GSOC proposal for the second year in a row. According to the six Terasology representatives at the GSOC 2014 post-mortem IRC meeting with rejected organizations, Terasology was denied this year mainly due to the lack of an approved organization vouching for them. I'm hoping the ASF will vouch for them next year.
I've been participating in Terasology's community since December of 2013, and my opinion is that they are qualified to participate in GSOC due to their professionalism, community building, mentoring, length of time the project has existed, and the interesting nature of the tasks they proposed. In my opinion, they demonstrate many of the traits we prize at the ASF. They also managed to convince me to switch over from SVN to git and, more importantly, mentored me through the two-week process of changing my mindset. Terasology is looking at other possible organizations to vouch for them -- they had compiled a list of around ten at last count -- but in my opinion, no one is going to vouch for them without being part of the Terasology community long enough to say that they would make good GSOC mentors. In my opinion, the ASF, through me, is probably their best chance at this point in time. Since I'm an ASF member, a PMC member on two projects, a long-time contributor, and have been involved as a mentor for one successful top-level ASF project/community graduating from the incubator , I'm hoping that my recommendation that they would be a good GSOC mentoring organization is sufficient. 2014 has passed, so it will be a 2015 recommendation that I'm looking for. I'm guessing this is too early to request at this point, but I want to make sure I've done everything necessary by February of 2015, so much as it depends upon me or the Terasology project. -Mike
