On 02/ 8/12 03:48 AM, William Stein wrote:
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?).
Lack of feedback is really annoying. Can't you get any unofficial feedback via
telephone calls rather than email?
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),
Perhaps that's not the wisest thing to state in public.
I've had a couple of theories about why applications might fail.
1) Too mathematical, though that theory seems to have been dismissed, as I
gather other heavy maths has been funded.
2) The Sage development process is not exactly a shining example of best
practice in software engineering. I once suggested you purchased some books on
software engineering and handed out free copies to some of your developers,
since its clear some don't have a clue.
It's remotely possible Google see this, and would rather someone mentored in a
different environment, which at least appears a bit different, even if in fact
it is no less chaotic.
Dave
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