On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Marc Jones marcj303@gmail.com wrote:
coreboot was not selected to participate in GSoC 2012. This is disappointing new for the project. I do not know why we were not selected this year. I will attend the post selection meeting to see what we can do to improve our chances of selection next year.
Students, thank you for your interest in coreboot. We are happy that you are engaging with our community. I hope that you continue exploring your interest in coreboot. Please let us know what we can do to assist you in your learning.
Feel free to send me questions, comments, or concerns.
Regards, Marc
We attended the GSoC rejection meeting this morning. The main feedback was to improve our projects ideas page. Our ideas were not flushed out enough and we didn't have a complete mentors list/assignment.
The ideas page weighed more heavily than the org applications this year. It seems that (now) most orgs do a good job on the application, so the ideas page and mentor list is the defereniator.
GSoC snuck up on me this year and I did a called for mentors too late. We were not organized well enough, early enough. I think that is my fault and I apologize.
This year, we have the opportunity to put more thought into the direction of coreboot and projects, flushout the idea on the wiki and be more prepaired for next year. I can use your help in this. Please start editing the wiki.
Regards, Marc
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Marc Jones