Howdy, On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Does it cost the organization any money to have the project director > sent to Google HQ? Parrot Foundation really doesn't have any money for > that kind of expenditure.
I already answered this invalid data in previous email. > For anybody who follows the GSOC mailing lists, there has been some > talk that this year Google is trying to increase participation from > smaller organizations. Because of that push, it might be easier for > Parrot to get accepted as a mentoring organization by itself this year > if we choose to go that route. > > That said, we've done very well in the past few years, attracting as > many projects as the Perl Foundation has. Considering the relative > sizes of Perl and Parrot communities, we've done abnormally well in > the past few years. Keep in mind that Perl probably gets a quota for > projects than we would by ourselves, so it's hard to tell whether we > would get as many spaces without being under the Perl Foundation > umbrella. > > Lots of things to think about with this topic, and it all presumes > that Perl and/or Parrot would even get accepted as a mentoring > organization this year. I strongly suspect they will, but we shouldn't > get ahead of ourselves. I would say that the Parrot Foundation has a good record with mentoring students, as well as being picked as one of only 20 orgs to participate in Google Code-In. While this doesn't make us a shoe-in, I don't think we should worry about not getting accepted due to splitting off from TPF. I have no clue how many slots we will get, though, since they seem to be thinking about changing the size/structure of GSoC a bit. Duke -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto [email protected] http://leto.net _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
