gsoc/organization_application: update on past participation

Somewhat different question; updates for last year; and extra question for
explicit head count.

Generally change emphasis of text from praising participation as a distinct
organisation, to praising our own past achievments.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn b/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn
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@@ -93,37 +93,31 @@ In 2006 and 2007,
 we participated under the umbrella of the GNU project, getting one slot each
 year.
 
-The 2006 participation was mostly a failure. After some intitial work
-(available in CVS), the student disappeared -- moving to another country and
-other personal issues from what we heard.
-
-The 2007 participation was a considerable success. The student was very bright
-and dedicated. We got some code, as well as a lot of ideas, which we continued
-discussing after the end of GSoC, and he intends to put into code as well in
-the future.
-
 In 2008 we participated as an organisation on our own for the first time. This
-turned out extremely beneficial: Not only did it give us much better
-possibilities to find and select good students, as we hoped. We also get a lot
-more applications, mostly of good or excellent quality.
-
-We ended up with four slots. (We didn't request more, because we were not sure
-whether we would be able to mentor them properly, and generally didn't want to
-overdo it on our first "full" participation.) There was also a fifth student,
-who worked on his project in spite of not getting a slot.
+turned out extremely beneficial: With the better visibility, we get a lot
+more applications (more than 20), mostly of good or excellent quality.
 
-All five students were pretty successful, most of them completing or almost
-completing the original goals -- some even exceeding them. Even our weakest
-student, after serious struggling in the beginning, did quite well in the end.
+In 2009, we were rejected as an organisation, so we participated under the GNU
+umbrella again.
 
-Two students are still regularily working on the Hurd -- not as much as we
-hoped of course, but probably as much as can be realistically expected...
+While the 2006 student disappeared midway, in all the later years all of our
+students were successful -- including even one who worked on his project in
+spite of not getting a slot. Half of them are regular Hurd contributors now.
 
-All in all, the participation was a considerable amount of work, but it was
-definitely worth it :-)
+Selecting the most promising students, as well as suitable mentors, turned out
+to be the most tricky part of GSoC participation -- but we learned our lesson
+after the first failure: We didn't have any students that didn't meet our
+expectations since then, and we also believe our mentoring is exceptionally
+good now -- one project that was in serious trouble, turned out well after all,
+due to effective mentor intervention.
 
 * If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the ratio of students passing to students allocated, e.g. 2006: 3/6 for 3 out of 6 students passed in 2006.
 
+2008: 4/4
+
+(+1 inofficial in 2008)
+(under GNU umbrella: 2006: 0/1; 2007: 1/1; 2009: 1/1)
+
 * If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?
 
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