On 04/06/2012 07:13 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
The deadline for students to apply to Google Summer of Code has now passed. We received 41 substantive proposals*, but of course can only accept a small subset of those. We don't have that many willing mentors, we certainly won't get that many slots from Google, and I want to accept only students who are very likely to succeed.
Early next week I'll be in touch with mentors to finish ranking and grading the proposals. Also next week, several applicants who still haven't found mentors will be looking for experienced developers to fall in love with their proposals. :-)
We'll announce the acceptances on April 23rd.
- And 22 that were spam, copy-and-paste from our ideas list, incredibly
vague, etc. In 2011 we only got about 24 consideration-worthy proposals, so this year's quite an increase. Thanks to everyone who did outreach and who helped people apply.
Update: Google gave us nine slots, so we will accept, at most, nine students. We're now evaluating the proposals and students.