Yo,
IIRC, one of their complaints from last year was that our application had too many parts. Next time we should pick just one or two specific tasks and go with them. Maybe with a community vote or whatever. Also, I hate to be cynical, but I can't see any way even remotely in which Google could use Pd to make a profit. ;) Thanks for your huge effort anyway, Hans and Georg.
Best,
Chris.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:33:55AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
That is indeed true. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to nag google, and it
might even help. But I don't think it would change this year's outcome.I think the key to getting a grant like this is to know what they are
looking for and tailor the grant to that. It would be useful if someone tried to find any materials from the successful projects and report back what they learned. I tried to do that in the past..hc
On Mar 20, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Rich E wrote:
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..hc
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