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diff --git a/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn b/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn index 9765c500..cfb88a46 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/organization_application.mdwn @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ our community -- new impulses, increased communication etc. * 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. +-- * What license(s) does your project use? |