On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 22:36:43 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> 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 :(

Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I suppose we are on even footing with our main competition.

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

Respect for your uphill battle.

I remember someone somewhere suggested to make our own summer of code (however I don't know how this would look like). As for a "free money" from corporations I'm  skeptical in general.
http://imgur.com/W5AMy0P

Nevertheless, great job.

Cheers
Piotrek

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 23:57:56 +0000, Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> I remember someone somewhere suggested to make our own summer of code (however I don't know how this would look like).

Fedora runs its own[1].

--Ben

[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_SIG

On 3/2/15 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.

Thanks, Craig. I'm glad you asked, please follow through politely if at first you don't get an answer; Carol is very nice but (a) at this point in the GSoC timeline she's super busy, and (b) she won't reply to any question about rejection that alleges unfairness. So a kind request for what we can do in the future to improve our chances might fare well.

We've done well, I think, in 2011 and 2012 (except for the one student who failed to deliver) so something about our reporting might have failed GSoC's expectations.


Andrei

On 3/2/15 2:36 PM, weaselcat wrote:
> 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 :(

Comparing our application with that of the accepted language projects might yield some insight. I ran a cursory read of Clojure's idea page and on first sight it seems comparable to ours'. -- Andrei

On 3/03/2015 8:08 a.m., 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

You did a good job. I don't think it was your fault.
But as others have mentioned, maybe we should run our own.

On 03/03/2015 01:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> We've done well, I think, in 2011 and 2012 (except for the one student who failed to deliver) so something about our reporting might have failed GSoC's expectations.

Are there some documents/emails available. Will get back to you after the IRC, maybe we can find out more.

On 03/03/2015 01:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Comparing our application with that of the accepted language projects might yield some insight. I ran a cursory read of Clojure's idea page and on first sight it seems comparable to ours'. -- Andrei

Indeed, this year our ideas page and the mentors list were much better. http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas

http://scala-lang.org/gsoc/2015.html

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 01:03:21 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 03/03/2015 01:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We've done well, I think, in 2011 and 2012 (except for the one student
>> who failed to deliver) so something about our reporting might have
>> failed GSoC's expectations.
>
> Are there some documents/emails available. Will get back to you after
> the IRC, maybe we can find out more.

There isn't really much, just our proposal/mentors lists.  Haven't heard anything extra from Google. I had one IRC chat with the Google people, but it was a technical one about who to work with Melange - surprise :o)

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 01:07:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 03/03/2015 01:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Comparing our application with that of the accepted language projects
>> might yield some insight. I ran a cursory read of Clojure's idea page
>> and on first sight it seems comparable to ours'. -- Andrei
>
> Indeed, this year our ideas page and the mentors list were much better.
> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas
>
> http://scala-lang.org/gsoc/2015.html

I will definitely have to check out the winning bids from other languages for 2015 and 'borrow' some ideas for next year's version.