Congratulations to all the candidates selected -- and their mentors!
Also an encouragement to all the candidates that worked hard but could not
get an internship. Our statistics show that applicants going after a second
round have a very high success rate.
I also want to thank volunteer org admins Tony and Sumit, who (with just a
bit of support from Niharika and me) have run the GSoC and Outreachy
selection processes smoothly and on time. Tony, your announcement almost
reads like a Wikimedia Blog post (hint, hint). :)
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Aashaka Shah <aashaka96(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I had also submitted a GSoC proposal for
"Improving static analysis tools
for MediaWiki", but
Aashaka, thank your for your understanding. Without knowing the details of
this decision, let me note that Priyanka (prnk28) was in a situation
similar to yours six months ago, when she was an Outreachy candidate but
saw her application declined. Yet she continued being involved, I guess she
learned a lot, and got more experience in our developer community, and now
that perseverance is paying off.
D3r1ck01 has a similar story, and... can it be that he is our first African
GSoC student? He joined this community half year ago, expressed his clear
interest in this GSoC round, and since then he has been involved as a
volunteer, also learning through practice and informal mentorship from
experienced developers.
To all the participants in this round: don't give up! Wikimedia is a
movement offering many possibilities to volunteer developers. I'm sure
there is a project or two where you can learn, meet interesting people, and
prepare for the next round.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil