GSoC Clarification: Applications/proposals welcome, but no acceptance decision before April 25!

[Elise Scher]

Hi Christian and others,
     Can I still help with gnucash and cutecash, even if Google does not
accept me? I would still like to help if that happens.
    But it would be easier for me to do more for gnucash if I am accepted.
Otherwise I would probably have to be some sort of camp counselor during the
day, if I can find a position, and code and test at night, when I will be
tired from working all day.
    By the way, I successfully downloaded gnucash onto my netbook and am
going through the tutorials. I hope to use it to keep track of my expenses
and to create the occasional invoice.
    Also, I have a friend who lives in San Leandro. So I could go out to
that area some weekend to meet people who live in the East Bay.

Thank you,
Elise L. Scher


2011/3/23 Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>

> Dear potential GSoC applicants,
>
> we are very happy to hear about the incoming GSoC ideas and interested
> students. Please continue to discuss the various ideas and check which of
> the
> thoughts are helpful and which ones are not fully helpful.
>
> However, I would like to remind everyone that we're still very early in the
> *application* phase for the students. That means we definitely do not take
> any
> decisions on which students will be accepted or which ones won't be. On top
> of
> that, it is not us gnucash developers who decide which student gets
> accepted,
> but instead it will be the Google staff who decides on the basis of the
> student's application.
>
> Hence, all we (=the gnucash developers) can do is to encourage you to write
> a
> good application at Google. We will happily answer your questions and guide
> you with your first steps into the gnucash project, so that you have a
> better
> understanding of the task and can hand in a very good application. But we
> will
> not and we can not give any of you a promise that you will be accepted into
> the program. This decision will be taken by Google staff.
>
> The gnucash developers will be asked to rate your applications once they've
> been handed in (by April 8), but the actual decision is really done by
> Google
> (by April 23). Hence, please don't expect any of the gnucash developers to
> state a promise that *your* application might be accepted whereas others
> might
> be not. Instead, we can only explain to you how you should improve your
> application so that we think you have a high chance of being accepted by
> Google. But the decision will not be taken by us in any case. Please don't
> expect us to give any promises into that direction, because we can't give
> them
> anyway.
>
> Enough of that. Now let the ideas flow, and continue to discuss all the
> great
> project plans!
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian
>
> (PS: I'm very busy by daytime work this week, but I'll reply in detail to
> the
> various applicant questions on Saturday and Sunday.)
>