Dear devs, I am appending below the log of the very brief exchange I had on freenode with Google´s 2011 Summer of Code´s Carol. Bottom line: our application was great, our ideas page was great, we made it to the final round, and then they had to cut some more. And we were axed. Nothing more we could have done, according to her.
Cheers, Stefano (12:30:45 PM) kai: next is sfranchi with LyX (12:30:55 PM) carols: thanks for your continued help, kai :-) (12:31:03 PM) mode (-v+v erlend_sh sfranchi) by kai (12:31:06 PM) sfranchi: Hi Carol, thx for your time (12:31:29 PM) carols: hi sfranchi. i can already tell i have bad news for you (12:31:37 PM) sfranchi: How do? (12:31:44 PM) sfranchi: How so* (12:31:49 PM) carols: we loved your application and your ideas page (12:32:04 PM) sfranchi: ok (12:32:05 PM) carols: and im looking at the spreadsheet and your org was cut in the final round of decisions (12:32:14 PM) carols: we really liked you and wanted to accept you (12:32:22 PM) sfranchi: but? (12:32:34 PM) carols: but we could only accept a certain number of orgs this year. :-( (12:32:45 PM) carols: i realize this is not very satisfying (12:32:58 PM) sfranchi: I see. Anything we can do to improve our chances in the future? (12:33:30 PM) carols: actually, your chances were great this year. get KDE to vouch for you again and i'd love to try to accept you in the future. (12:33:51 PM) sfranchi: OK. So it was just a number issue? (12:33:55 PM) carols: i've got nothing substantial to offer you, this wasn't really about your app at all (12:33:57 PM) carols: yeah (12:33:59 PM) carols: i'm sorry :-( (12:34:11 PM) sfranchi: ok, thanks for your time all the same (12:34:19 PM) carols: please do apply in the future (12:34:29 PM) sfranchi: we will (12:35:07 PM) carols: thanks sfranchi
