Excellent news! Congratulations to everyone involved!
Cheers,
David
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Parth Srivastav
<srivastav.parth(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi Quim
Great news, Congrats to the entire team
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Rahul Maliakkal <rahul14m93(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Quim
Great News, Youve struck Gold. Cheers to WMF :)
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Harsh Kothari <
harshkothari410(a)gmail.com
>
wrote:
>
> > Hi Quim
> >
> > This is fantastic news. Your efforts paid off. Congrats to all. :)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Harsh
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Pragun Bhutani <pragun06(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > That's really good news! Thanks for sharing, Quim. I'm looking
forward
to
> > the next steps now. :)
> >
> > Cheers everybody!
> >
> > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) <
> > smazeland(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > 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(a)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
>
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
> > > > >
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> > > >
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