Summer of Something-Else-Now
Technology June 25th, 2005
From Google:
Dear David Mussulman,
Thank you for taking the time to apply for Google’s Summer of Code program. We received a lot of interesting applications, but we are only able to fund a limited number. Unfortunately, yours was not one of the finalists.
Please keep up the good work, and we hope to connect with you in the future!
Best regards,
The Summer of Code team
With about 8000 applicants for 200 400 positions, I’m not surprised mine didn’t get selected. I hope those happy few who may get paid finish their projects (and do get paid.) I hope the accepted 400 are extremely useful contributions to OOS and they improve my daily quality of life.
I hope the other rejects keep plugging away at open source, even if they aren’t paid. I probably will, but on projects I am closer connected to (BackupPC, Wordpress, FreeRADIUS, NetReg, and more.) None of those made the list, and my recommendation to what was on the list wasn’t good enough, I guess.
Oh, well, at least I tried. Now I’ll have to find some other gimmick to make $4500.
(Edit: I found out later that LiveJournal was only awarded 4 spots to give to applicants, so those numbers are even tighter. I wonder what the accepted projects were.)
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Sorry man! Even though I didn’t understand what you were doing, (Steve) I was still pulling for you…