That's awesome, Quim. Thanks for all your efforts, support, encouragement and guidance so far.
The best is yet to come! May you enjoy many more alcohol-free drinks in celebration of future milestones passed.
Cheers!
Siebrand
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Google just allocated slots and...
On 05/05/2013 09:23 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Based on the feedback received from the mentors we are requesting
11 min 21 max
... WE HAVE GOT 21 SLOTS ALLOWED!!!!
First: congratulations to everybody involved: mentors AND students. This number reflects succinctly how much someone like Google trusts you.
Second: this relaxes a lot our selection process. Between this and OPW we can accommodate many good proposals.
Third: still, we will keep standards high as we have done so far. Having 21 slots doesn't mean that we will take them blindly. We will continue asking questions to mentors and students about the feasibility of each proposal and we will consider accepted only those that have all the foundations in place.
Last but not least: remember the important point about confidentiality. Now several projects might look pretty obvious candidates but this doesn't authorize anybody to leak / pre-announce our decisions made. Google is still the one that must announce all accepted GSoC projects first.
PS: and now, if you don't mind, I'll go get some sophisticated alcohol-free drink to celebrate. Salut!
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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