Any further proposed changes to the GSoC org application?

[John Ralls]

On Mar 11, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Christian Stimming wrote:

> Am Freitag, 11. März 2011 schrieb John Ralls:
>> On Mar 11, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Christian Stimming wrote:
>>> (the subject says it all)
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GSoC2011/OrgApplication
>>> Does anyone still have improvements for the organization application?
>>> Please go ahead and edit the wiki page. The application deadline is a
>>> few hours from now and I will submit it in 2 hours from now.
>> 
>> I made a couple of changes to te "Why is your organization applying..."
>> paragraph, 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> but do you really want to claim that we're working on
>> "radically new features and technologies"? That's pretty far-fetched, I
>> think. There's certainly nothing radically new on the ideas page.
> 
> Not on the ideas page, yes. On the other hand, this is an *application*, so 
> our text must prove that we're willing to go a few steps beyond what is 
> currently visible. Also note that I didn't claim that we already have any 
> "radically new" features - there's just some more momentum currently, which 
> might eventually lead to features which even might be rather new. If you have 
> another wording in mind that doesn't seem too off to you, feel free to replace 
> that - but just saying "we want to implement a minor new feature" is too 
> boring as well. Again, this is the application, so we need to show off a bit, 
> too, at least in the first answer. We're getting down to reality rather 
> quickly during the rest of the questions anyway.
> 

Mmmph. I guess that's why I don't do so well at selling. You're up against the deadline now, so we'll have to go with it as-is.

Regards,
John Ralls