Of course it would be nice to do the projects regardless of funding, but in reality they just won't get the same attention to detail and thoroughness. I don't have a job except through grants like this..
I'm still all for making apython libpd module... but who knows when summer rolls around and i'm broke.
Do you think it is any good to question/complain to google about not getting accepted two years in a row? I looked at some of the other project pages and not only is the pd application just as good, I think the proposed projects are much more valuable to the open source community. I don't want to name anything in specific, but I saw some well funded projects that only proposed various bug fixes, that were accepted (literally there is a project that says "go through the bugs list and fix whatever you can).
regards, Rich
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
So now we have a nice collection of projects sketched out from the GSoC application, let's encourage people to take them on. If anyone wants to get involved with Pd development, take a look at the project ideas and if you are interested, then ask about them on the list and we can get started.
http://puredata.info/dev/summer-of-code/GoogleSummerOfCodeIdeas2009
I think next time someone else should take on the GSoC application process. I'm 2 for 2 at not getting it, I've never had much luck with grants. And we have lots of well-sketched out projects. We should probably chuck the application part and start from scratch.
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