Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor.

I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here once/if I get something from them.

If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and any feedback they provide.

Cheers,

Craig

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor.
>
> I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here once/if I get something from them.
>
> If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and any feedback they provide.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Craig

Tying to keep things positive, at least I don't have to spend a good chunk of my summer working with that horrible Melange site, and the rest of you won't have to put up with my GSoC pestering ...

On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 19:10 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> 
[…]
> Tying to keep things positive, at least I don't have to spend a good chunk of my summer working with that horrible Melange site, and the rest of you won't have to put up with my GSoC pestering ...

Google's Melange site is a disgrace, it is truly horrible. I suspect it is something written by someone who is a failure as a Web applications developer.

Having you hectoring us makes things happen, do not stop doing this please.

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On 03/02/2015 08:08 PM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor.

Just read that as well, it's a pity.
Thanks for all the good work Craig.

> I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here once/if I get something from them.

You sent them a mail? Let's hope we get some qualified feedback. I'll try to attend the IRC feedback meeting as well.

-Martin

On 3/2/2015 11:08 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was
> rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who
> volunteered to mentor.
>
> I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here once/if
> I get something from them.
>
> If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post again next
> year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and any feedback they provide.


Thank you very much for taking the initiative and lead on this, Craig. Having done this myself (with Andrei), I know how much work it is. I'm sorry it didn't work out in our favor, but it's important that you tried.

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected.

Apparently Blender didn't make it either:
https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/572473379648888832

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor.
>
> I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here once/if I get something from them.
>
> If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post again next year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and any feedback they provide.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Craig

List of accepted projects
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015

a lot of other languages got accepted :(

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:39:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 19:10 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> Tying to keep things positive, at least I don't have to spend a good chunk of my summer working with that horrible Melange site, and the rest of you won't have to put up with my GSoC pestering ...
>
> Google's Melange site is a disgrace, it is truly horrible. I suspect
> it is something written by someone who is a failure as a Web
> applications developer.
>
> Having you hectoring us makes things happen, do not stop doing this
> please.

I will try to keep hectoring folks, but you all get a break at least for the summer :o)

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:50:07 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 03/02/2015 08:08 PM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of
>> Code was rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this,
>> especially to those who volunteered to mentor.
>
> Just read that as well, it's a pity.
> Thanks for all the good work Craig.
>
>> I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here
>> once/if I get something from them.
>
> You sent them a mail? Let's hope we get some qualified feedback.
> I'll try to attend the IRC feedback meeting as well.
>
> -Martin

Martin, thanks.  If you can get in on the IRC that would be great.  Google returned my message but it was basically "We had a lot of hard decisions, and your organization was one of those" ... I bet everyone who failed an application gets the same feedback :o)

I sent a message asking for a bit more in-depth feedback, we will see how that turns out!

On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 20:56:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/2/2015 11:08 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was
>> rejected.  Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who
>> volunteered to mentor.
>>
>> I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that here once/if
>> I get something from them.
>>
>> If I am not asked to resign I am happy to volunteer for this post again next
>> year. Hopefully I can learn something from this year and any feedback they provide.
>
>
> Thank you very much for taking the initiative and lead on this, Craig. Having done this myself (with Andrei), I know how much work it is. I'm sorry it didn't work out in our favor, but it's important that you tried.

Thanks for the kind words.