On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > 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?
My post on this list resulted in unofficial off-list feedback. >> 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. Dang, I guess the secret is out now. -- William -- 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
