On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 00:45:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

Haskell's page just seems to be its bug tracker?

On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:51 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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> I sent a message asking for a bit more in-depth feedback, we will see how that turns out!

I suspect it is like any decision making process where there are N places for M applications and N << M, many get culled by fairly arbitrary criteria simply to get the numbers down and make the decision making tractable.

We are going through this right now with the DevoxxUK 2015 programme committee, and many of us have a fear we might have missed a good proposal in the mass culling needed to get few enough selected not to have an overburdened programme.

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On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:36 +0000, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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> 
> List of accepted projects https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015
> 
> a lot of other languages got accepted :(

Looks like Groovy has been rejected and yet Ruby gets lots. Must be a conspiracy :-)

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On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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> Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I suppose we are on even footing with our main competition.

It's called Nim now. I suspect there was a rationale for the change, but I am not sure it was worth it.

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On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:49 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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> I will try to keep hectoring folks, but you all get a break at least for the summer :o)

:-)

I guess I don't get a dreadful t-shirt this year which costs more to ship than it's worth!

I think the trick here is to assume an element of arbitrariness in the decision making, and just to put up a proposal next year with some good doable projects on an appealing student accessible website.

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On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 19:37 -0500, Ben Boeckel via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> 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].

But this is funded either by GSoC or RH.

> --Ben
> 
> [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_SIG
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On 2015-03-02 20:39, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

> 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.

Use that as a project for next year, rewrite the site in D and make it useable :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:14:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I suppose we are on even footing with our main competition.
>
> It's called Nim now. I suspect there was a rationale for the change,
> but I am not sure it was worth it.

The rationale was that Nimrod has a fairly negative meaning attached to it in American(?) English. I'm not sure if it exists in other English dialects.

On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 09:03 +0000, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:14:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars- d-announce wrote:
> > > 
> > […]
> > > Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I suppose we are on even footing with our main competition.
> > 
> > It's called Nim now. I suspect there was a rationale for the
> > change,
> > but I am not sure it was worth it.
> 
> The rationale was that Nimrod has a fairly negative meaning attached to it in American(?) English. I'm not sure if it exists in other English dialects.

Apparently pig, pork, and sausage are now banned words as well.

Ho hum…

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On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:09:30 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:51 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> I sent a message asking for a bit more in-depth feedback, we will see how that turns out!
>
> I suspect it is like any decision making process where there are N
> places for M applications and N << M, many get culled by fairly
> arbitrary criteria simply to get the numbers down and make the
> decision making tractable.
>
> We are going through this right now with the DevoxxUK 2015 programme
> committee, and many of us have a fear we might have missed a good
> proposal in the mass culling needed to get few enough selected not to
> have an overburdened programme.

I imagine you are correct.  I understand that Google can't take everyone, and they no doubt have some tough choices, so I don't feel that we have been unfairly treated in any way.  I am hoping though we can get some feedback so that next year's entry can be better though.