Hi, Does anybody want to help put together a GSoC application for Sage for 2012?
http://code.google.com/soc/ The application deadline is March 9. So far, I think we've applied 5 times to have Sage as a mentoring organizing, and been denied every time. I think there is no feedback about why we are denied (maybe they think we already have too much NSF funding?). Also, other similar projects such as R, Sympy, PlanetMath, etc., have often been accepted as mentoring organizations. However, I don't think being denied every year is a reason to stop trying, because (1) our project is better than many of the projects Google chooses (they are just making a mistake by not choosing us), and (2) even if they don't choose us, we can propose our project ideas to other mentoring organizations. Regarding (2) though, it can be frustrating -- e.g., I felt we had an excellent proposal for a mentoring organization one of the years Sage was denied, and the organization decided against funding it because the developers didn't know us personally; their "no" was not based on weaknesses of the project itself, which I found frustrating. So it's best if we are a mentoring organization. -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
