Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (56 mails)

[Francis Giannaros <francisg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 10 March 2007 17:10:32 Christoph Thiel wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> [sorry for cross-posting.]
>
> We just submitted our Google Summer of Code application for being a
> mentoring org in this years program. Therefore we are now looking for your
> project proposals and ideas, that could be turned into potential Summer of
> Code projects.
>

For any of those who don't know, openSUSE was rejected as a SoC project this 
year. It's the only major distribution to not have been accepted this year, 
and I find it both very curious and a little ridiculous. Of course my 
suspicions, like most others' out there, is that this is because of the 
MS-Novell deal. 

I emailed gsoc@xxxxxxxxxx and got this response:

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Hello Francis,

Thanks for your email.  I am very curious who told you that openSUSE was
rejected because of the Microsoft deal.  We are simply changing the mix of
linux distros this year.  That's it.  There is no need to look for a
conspiracy theory here.

Best,
Leslie Hawthorn
Open Source Program Office
Google Inc.
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Funnily enough, I can't really see how they 'mixed up' the linux distros this 
year. All the distros from last year seem to be on there; am I missing one of 
them?

Regards,
-- 
Francis Giannaros
Website: http://francis.giannaros.org
IRC: apokryphos on irc.freenode.net
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