Here's some further explanation from Chris DiBona. This doesn't quite jive with the original email I got from someone else at Google, which stated:
"Unfortunately, we cannot offer you admission to the program at this time, as we are unable to take on new organizations." --Tom ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris DiBona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 19, 2006 11:11 PM Subject: Re: You've Arbitrarily Cut Off Applications? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It isn't arbitrary, we're actually stopping the application process altogether on Monday. We have turned down groups from the first day because of the eventual pinch in the number of groups we can take on, and this was on the merits. We would take almost all of them on -if- we had unlimited funds. Reasons we've turned down groups: * We've already accepted similar groups and we're in a happy place for that segment. * We've had a bad experience in the past with a group. * They're not otherwise suitable or organized enough for the program. * We don't think that the project is sufficiently open source. Please don't take this personally. We can still take applications through Monday. But in a program like this we will make people angry and they will accuse us of being arbitrary, amateurs, biased, evil or whatever. I have turned down dozens of my favorite projects already. It sucks, but that's the way it is. We didn't take the first 80 emails and stopped, that's ridiculous. Chris On 4/19/06, Tom Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I must say I'm flabbergasted that you've simply stopped accepting > applications for mentoring applications without warning. Here I was, > discussing plans for mentoring with people in my organization, > discussing project ideas, considering how to integrate project of code > participants into our development sprints. Clearly what one was > supposed to do was sign up first and think about how one was actually > going to implement this later. > > I am extremely frustrated and angry about this decision by Google. If > you needed to limit mentoring organizations, you should have taken > applications and selected them on their merits. Taking the first 80 > emails and stopping is amateur hour. > > Tom Hoffman > Project Manager > SchoolTool > > > > > -- Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source program can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Weblog: http://dibona.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Summer Discuss 2006" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Summer-Discuss-2006 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
