Describe 2008 GSoC participation in application form

Also adapted question about no previous participation...

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 * Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize
 your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.
 
-We did not participate as an organisation on our own so far. In 2006 and 2007,
+In 2006 and 2007,
 we participated under the umbrella of the GNU project, getting one slot each
 year.
 
@@ -99,13 +99,30 @@ 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.
 
-We decided to participate as an own organisation this year, as we believe that
-will give us much better possibilities to find and select good students.
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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...
+
+All in all, the participation was a considerable amount of work, but it was
+definitely worth it :-)
 
 * If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you
 applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?
 
-We didn't apply as as organisation so far.
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 * What license(s) does your project use?