I would ask around in #gsoc on FreeNode to see if anyone has heard of similar hard limits.
According to LH's post to the soc mailing list 2 days ago, GSoC will support a smaller number of organizations this year, so OLPC and SL may be lucky to be accepted. Cheers, Wade On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Mel Chua <m...@melchua.com> wrote: > That depends on what OLPC's GSoC focus is - it may *not* be Sugar at > all, in which case the organizational intern allocations should be (and > they should be, anyway!) independent of each other. > > Marcin, do you recall where you heard/saw that rule? Googling for things > like "gsoc limit of 2 students" isn't getting me anywhere - I want to > have a few moments to read through all the docs and historical paperwork > before emailing Leslie (likely tomorrow, as there will be time to catch > my breath then). > > Is anybody here, aside from SJ, a former GSoC coordinator who can chime > in / fill in details / help? I am *completely *swamped for the next 24 > hours wrapping up the "becoming a volunteer again" process. > > --Mel > > Jameson Quinn wrote: >> >> >> OTOH the last year there was a rule that new organizations can get not >> more than two students in GSOC. >> >> Marcin >> >> >> This is something on which we should get clarification ASAP. To me, it >> would be logical for OLPC to have around 2 slots and Sugarlabs to get >> OLPC's (presumably larger) allocation. This is not based on any >> judgement of the relative importance or capacities of the two >> organizations, just on the fact that the majority of projects will >> probably be applicable in the broader sugar context. >> >> Jameson > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
