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diff --git a/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn b/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn index 32a76b1c..1f499f5a 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn @@ -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)? -- |