GnuCash GSoC application outcome

[Ajay Thomas]

Christian,

I thought gnucash had 4 student allocations but only 3 were selected. You
had mentioned that in a mail to Marcin Copik (
http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GSoC-Application-td3435491.html). Were
you short of mentors? I thought Geert was to be a mentor. Also, I read that
google would provide a mentor if an organization wasnt able to provide
enough mentors.

I would like to get some more feedback related to why my proposal was
rejected. This way, I can atleast improve myself for the next year's GSoC.
Was it because it was an idea of my own and hadn't been chosen from the
ideas list? Plus does fixing bugs hold any value when it comes to GSoC or is
it completely based on proposal?

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>wrote:

> Dear Ajay,
>
> thank you very much for your GSoC application. As you have read in the
> notice from Google, your project has not been accepted in GSoC this
> year. I'm sorry for that, but we have received many more applications
> than we already have mentors in our organization. Hence, your
> application was already very good but we simply did not have the
> mentor resources available to provide a good mentoring relationship
> for you.
>
> In any case, the GnuCash organization welcomes any contribution and
> participation from you! Feel free to announce your interest on
> gnucash-devel, and there will always be some helpful answers on the
> mailing list or the IRC channel #gnucash. Also feel free to apply
> again next year at GSoC!
>
> Additionally, some organizations offer dedicated programs for new
> participants to get involved into their work. See
>
> http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2011/04/25/not-accepted-into-gsoc-heres-what-to-do/
> for some examples of that. In GnuCash, no separate program is
> currently planned except for the GSoC mentoring, but we are very
> welcoming any contributions or discussions in any case. Thank you very
> much!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Christian, on behalf of the GnuCash Mentors
>
>
>


-- 
Ajay Thomas
II Year, Comp. Sc. Engg.
NITK Surathkal
Karnataka
<http://www.myvirtualconfessions.blogspot.com/>