[Coin-discuss] Google Summer of Code 2009?

[Brady Hunsaker]

After last year's application, I asked internally at Google (where I 
work) about feedback.  There were two main points:

- The most common reason for rejecting organization applications is a 
poor ideas list.  The person who replied to me said that the COIN-OR 
list looked reasonable, but added that there weren't any comments about 
required skills or difficulty levels.  That's something they look for, 
so that should certainly be included in any new application.

- In the final cut of organizations they had to make some really tough 
choices among very good organizations.  I don't know where COIN-OR 
fell--whether it was cut earlier or whether it was in the final cut. 
It's possible that the quality of the application was fine and COIN-OR 
just got a tough break.

Brady

Robin Lougee-Heimer wrote:
> Last year, I rallied a group who put together the application for COIN-OR 
> to be a mentoring organization for the Google SoC.  Here's what we put 
> together last year, in case someone else wants to step up and lead a try 
> for 2010. 
> 
>         https://projects.coin-or.org/Events/wiki/GoogleSummerOfCode2008
> 
> Thanks for raising the opportunity again, Sebastian!
> 
> Robin
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> Sebastian Nowozin <nowozin at gmail.com> 
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> Hello everybody,
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> Google announced the summer of code 2009 recently, see
> http://code.google.com/soc/
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> Does COIN-OR plan to apply as mentoring organization this year?  On the
> downside, only 1000 students will be funded this year, but on the upside
> the work on the COIN-OR 2008 application has already been done and it is
> still reasonably up-to-date, isn't it?
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> Mentoring organization application FAQ:
> http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html#0_1_org_apply_4694175091022641
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> The application deadline is March 9th, 2009.
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> Sebastian
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