I am sorry if the tone of my email sounds rude. I have no say as to
what an organisation chooses to do. I have not listed anything to show that I
am the best candidate they could have chosen. I know there are much better
candidates out there. My main focus for the email was the way the project was
selected - a coin flip. I think there should have been a better way to select /
reject a project and that the project proposal should've been taken into
account as well.As said earlier, I'm sorry to sound rude and I have no
intention to hurt anyone. This was my last year of GSoC, hence the added
frustration. But I'd like to congratulate the selected students and hope they
have an amazing time working on Qt with GSoC.Best,Nafees.---- On Fri, 20 Apr
2018 04:15:26 -0400 Albert Astals Cid<albert.astals....@kdab.com> wrote ----El
divendres, 20 d’abril de 2018, a les 5:29:21 CEST, Mohammed Nafees va
escriure:> Hello,> > > > I am Mohammed Nafees, a 2nd year CS student at the
University of Waterloo> and I had applied to GSoC 2018 for The Qt Project to
work on porting Qt to> IncludeOS. Earlier today I was notified that my project
has not been> selected by the mentors as one of the projects for GSoC 2018. I
was> notified that there were 2 slots given and one was selected for Qt
Creator> related project and the other was selected for Qt, in general. My
project> was for Qt and the selection process between me and another project
was a> coin flip. I find this criterion of selection absolutely ridiculous,
I'm> sorry.> > > > First of all, organisations can ask Google to increase their
number of> slots. There was especially a date set just for that in the
timeline.> Secondly, I was the one to notify on the IRC channel that the Ideas
URL for> the organisation in GSoC's website was wrong. I helped change it to
the> actual one. I am a Qt veteran and have been using it for the past 5+
years.> I am a former Google Code-in champion and a GSoC 2017 alumnus. I have
the> right to be disappointed because I was the one overjoyed about seeing The>
Qt Project in this year's GSoC.> > > > I am highly disappointed by how you have
rejected my project based on a coin> flip. I was looking forward to work for my
favorite toolkit so much so that> I did not apply to any other organisation.I
understand you are disappointed, but you should understand this email reflects
poorly on you and if i was involved in the GSOC organization it would make you
lose points for next year.How do you know the organization didn't ask for an
increase of slots and Google simply refused?Then you list all your "merits" as
a way of saying "no way the other person was as good as me", that's a severe
lack of self awareness, we all think we're good at something, yet for the most
part, the world is full of people that are better than us at that very same
thing.As said i understand frustation when you're not selected, but this is not
the email you should have written. The email you should have written is
something along the lines of "how can improve for next year so my proposal is
stronger and then not a coin flip is needed?".Cheers, AlbertP.S: I'm not
involved in GSOC for Qt.> > > >
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