[IAEP] Google Rise Awards

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hello Sascha,
Do you have a link to the successful proposals so we may look them over and learn from them? Thanks.
Caryl

To: walter.bender at gmail.com; e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:23:54 +0200
From: silbe at activitycentral.com
CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; Kevin.Brooks at ndsu.edu
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Google Rise Awards

Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> writes:
 
>> Did you get any feedback as to why the proposal wasn't accepted? Because
>> similarly to you it's my impression that Sugar-related activities should fit
>> in quite well with RISE's scope...
>
> You'd think Sugar would be a good fit for Summer of Code as well, but
> apparently not.
 
Sugar is a good fit for GSoC, but our proposals were not. Google
significantly raises the bar for organisations that have participated in
GSoC before - or put differently, they give "newcomers" a certain amount
of slack.
 
There are loads of organisations that try to participate in GSoC, so as
Kevin phrased it: The competition is stiff. Take a look at the projects
the other organisations proposed to students. They were in a much better
shape. More detailed and easy to understand descriptions, better fit to
the scope of GSoC (i.e. less ambitious!), designated mentors for each
proposal, diversity of topics, etc.
 
Sascha
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