From the Google Summer of Code list - please read if you're involved or want to be. Thanks!

Zonker ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LH (Leslie Hawthorn) Date: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:30 PM Subject: ***Very Important***: Get Your Students to Submit their Proposals via the 2009 site *now* To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List Hello everyone, Right now, we have about 2x the students registered on the site as we do number of proposals submitted. No doubt some of these student registrations are "spam" from folks who won't be submitting proposals. However, I am also hearing things like "We have six applications submitted to the GSoC 2009 site but we're discussing another 20 or so in our forums." I realize that many organizations are working with students to refine their proposal ideas on their mailing lists, wikis, etc. However, a proposal on a wiki, mailing list, etc. does not constitute an actual application for the program; the proposal must be submitted to the GSoC 2009 site. While doing review and refinement outside of http://socghop.appspot.com is a useful exercise, it doesn't allow us to accurately gauge the number of student proposals we're receiving for GSoC 2009. Please help us get an accurate sense of how many proposals will be submitted for GSoC 2009 by asking your students to submit their proposals to the GSoC 2009 site *now*. They are welcome to link to the wiki page, mailing list thread, forum topic, etc. where their proposals are under discussion and refinement as part of the proposal submission process.[0] In case folks are wondering, we want to get this data so we can decide if it's worthwhile to extend the student application deadline. We're pretty much set on "no, we won't be extending the deadline," but we need better data so we can assess if a deadline extension would be a good thing to do. We're still anticipating the usual "near to deadline application submission rush" that we see every year but we'd like to get a more accurate proposal count sooner rather than later. Cheers, LH [0] - http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/userguide#d... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Summer of Code Mentors List" group. To post to this group, send email to google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-summer-of-code-mentors-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org