[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Google Summer of Code 2009 is a go!

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 23:26, Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org> wrote:
> Yes, but in 2007 "they" were "us", no?

No, the point I'm trying to make is that the two organizations are
very different in a dimension that is specially important for the
issue at hand.

OLPC is an organization that has a reputation of being hard to work
with for several causes that were certainly out of my own hands.

I really hope that SugarLabs will be known as easy to work with and
everybody there is making a big personal effort to achieve it.

Hope it clarifies,

Tomeu

> Thanks, this is helpful information (I didn't know the status of OLPC's
> previous GSoC work).  I don't see why there is any reason to presume that
> OLPC would NOT be interested in 2009 GSoC, but I don't know of any active
> ideas/proposals kicking around here.  I would strongly encourage Sugar Labs
> ideas, however - to Ben's point, there should be no confusion.  The only
> things I could imagine (and it's just imagining) coming from OLPC would be
> ancillary ideas (school server add-ons?) that would be quite distinct from
> XO/Sugar software.  Go for it!
>
>        - Ed
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> We should take into account that organizations are assigned slots
>>> based on their well behaviour in past editions.
>>
>> To be clear, OLPC was put on GSoC 'probation' last year due to their
>> poor performance reporting on students' work in 2007.  They only
>> received 4 slots despite hundreds of applications.
>>
>> Wade
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