Posted by Martin Bähr on Mar 03, 2015; 9:23am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Fwd-Pharo-Consortium-Your-organization-application-has-been-rejected-tp4809041p4809079.html

Excerpts from Clément Bera's message of 2015-03-03 10:01:21 +0100:
> Well, this year google it looks like accepted less organizations.
>
> 2012: 180 organizations accepted.
> 2013: 177 organizations accepted.
> 2014: 190 organizations accepted.
> 2015: 137 organizations accepted.

from the news announcement: "After reviewing 416 applications, we have chosen
137 open source projects, 37 of which are new to Google Summer of Code"

assuming that every project from last year tried again, this
means about half from last year didn't get re-accepted.

more importantly, from those 416 applications probably half were new, so that
means a lot of competition, and pharo just didn't make the cut.

> A few projects with ESUG could be nice for sure. But there we will have in
> the same issues again: typically, a student cannot in 3 months make his
> project working for all existing smalltalk, ...

well, if it is ESUG sponsored it would not have to follow googles timeline

there is also VALS Semester of Code, http://semesterofcode.com/ though this
doesn't have many universities participating yet. perhaps some of the
universities that support smalltalk already could be convinced to participate
next term...

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