[Dune-devel] GSoC 2014: reasons for rejection

[Christian Engwer]

Hi Christoph,

Thanks for getting the response...

I actually think it is not that disappointing, as we didn't have major flaws, perhaps even with negative impact of the next round.

Christian

On 28. Februar 2014 19:00:31 MEZ, "Christoph Grüninger" <christoph.grueninger at iws.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>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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