> For whatever mixture of factors, we ended up "below the line" > last year. This year more groups are expected to apply, and > Google has indicated they plan to support fewer groups and > fewer students this year as compared to last year. Each of > those trends seems likely to push us further "below the line" > if we submit a similar application again this year.
As it turns out, I was in a presentation today given by the key SOC people from Google. The thing that really caught my attention was that they made a point of saying that they gave particular preference to projects/groups that would put forward mentors that they could be confident would have a successful project completion. That's not to say that they don't have confidence in the mentors from Plan9 and Inferno, but that does seems to be a lot of what goes into the placement of that line. As to how many groups and students, they didn't say anything about that other than to show that each year the numbers had increased. They also said the money pool was planned to be the same as last year. BLS
