[Dune-devel] GSoC 2014: reasons for rejection

[Christoph Grüninger]

Hi fellow developers,
I had a chat with Google's engineer responsible for GSoC (Carol). She
told the rejected projects reasons for their rejection. Find below a
cleaned up protocol. The chat was on freenode's #gsoc channel half an
hour ago.

From the hints given to other projects I got tips, that might be helpful
for us, too:
- add images / visuals if applicable (like for last year's project about
the psurface import stuff)
- give the students a hint about the level of difficulty, like grades
- offer projects with different level of difficulties

Bye
Christoph

[18:11] <carols> i'm taking a 2 minute break
[18:11] <carols> ill be right back
[18:14] <carols> i'm back
[18:14] <kblin> !nextinline
[18:14] <gsocbot> kblin: Next in line is dune_gruenich with notice:
http://www.dune-project.org/gsoc/2014/
[18:14] <carols> hi dune_gruenich
[18:14] *** kblin gibt Ihnen Erlaubnis zu schreiben.
[18:14] <dune_gruenich> Hi Carol
[18:14] <carols> aw, this feedback is going to be disappointing :-(
[18:14] <dune_gruenich> Uh, why?
[18:15] <carols> you guys were in until the very last round :-( and we
just had to make some cuts for orgs we liked but couldn't keep
[18:15] <dune_gruenich> That's life.
[18:15] <carols> i know that's disappointing :-(
[18:15] <carols> i'm sorry
[18:15] <dune_gruenich> Can you still give hint about improving?
[18:15] <carols> i don't have any feedback for improving, i think you
guys did everything right
[18:15] <carols> we just had 190 slots and 371 apps
[18:15] <dune_gruenich> Ok, thanks for your time any.
[18:16] <carols> you're welcome
[18:16] <carols> thanks for waiting
[18:16] <dune_gruenich> We'll apply next year.
[18:16] <carols> please do

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