<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> Hello Sascha,<div><br></div><div>Do you have a link to the successful proposals so we may look them over and learn from them? Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Caryl<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>To: walter.bender@gmail.com; e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at<br>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:23:54 +0200<br>From: silbe@activitycentral.com<br>CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; Kevin.Brooks@ndsu.edu<br>Subject: Re: [IAEP] Google Rise Awards<br><br><pre>Walter Bender <walter.bender@gmail.com> writes:<br> <br>>> Did you get any feedback as to why the proposal wasn't accepted? Because<br>>> similarly to you it's my impression that Sugar-related activities should fit<br>>> in quite well with RISE's scope...<br>><br>> You'd think Sugar would be a good fit for Summer of Code as well, but<br>> apparently not.<br> <br>Sugar is a good fit for GSoC, but our proposals were not. Google<br>significantly raises the bar for organisations that have participated in<br>GSoC before - or put differently, they give "newcomers" a certain amount<br>of slack.<br> <br>There are loads of organisations that try to participate in GSoC, so as<br>Kevin phrased it: The competition is stiff. Take a look at the projects<br>the other organisations proposed to students. They were in a much better<br>shape. More detailed and easy to understand descriptions, better fit to<br>the scope of GSoC (i.e. less ambitious!), designated mentors for each<br>proposal, diversity of topics, etc.<br> <br>Sascha<br>-- <br><a href="http://sascha.silbe.org/" target="_blank">http://sascha.silbe.org/</a><br><a href="http://www.infra-silbe.de/" target="_blank">http://www.infra-silbe.de/</a><br></pre><br>_______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</div></div> </div></body> </html>