Hi Jameson, Pleasure to virtually meet you. And hello again to the fabulous Mel Chua. :) <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jameson Quinn <<a href="mailto:jameson.quinn@gmail.com">jameson.quinn@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Last year, OLPC handled the sugar educational environment in GSOC. This year, that responsibility could be split. Sugarlabs, a more traditional open-source government org, handles Sugar; and OLPC only in one platform version of that, for Fedora on the XO. It is not clear to me what, if any, interest in GSOC OLPC will have (they are undergoing some serious belt-tightening right now, so it's not the best time to ask). Some of last years' OLPC mentors for GSOC are now associated with Sugarlabs instead. LH, I've been delegated to ask you what implications that has for what range of numbers of slots Sugarlabs might reasonably expect. It is emphatically not our intention to take any slots from OLPC which OLPC can legitimately use, but it is our impression that OLPC might have a lower number of interesting applicants this year due to the much-smaller code base that is still strictly "theirs". There are rumors that GSOC puts "new" organizations at the end of the line for slots, and we hope that some of OLPC's track record might rub off on us. In fact, we dare hope that, as a less heierarchical organization than OLPC, we may actually do a better job than they did with open source community tasks like GSOC. </blockquote><div> This question is a bit premature, but enthusiasm is always appreciated. Assuming you are accepted as a mentoring organization, your number of student slots would be based on overall popularity as with all other organizations. There's full documentation available here that may be helpful to you: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/notes-on-student-allocations">http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/notes-on-student-allocations</a> I look forward to reviewing your organization application. Cheers, LH </div></div> -- Leslie Hawthorn Program Manager - Open Source Google Inc. <a href="http://code.google.com/opensource/">http://code.google.com/opensource/</a> I blog here: <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com">http://google-opensource.blogspot.com</a> - <a href="http://www.hawthornlandings.org">http://www.hawthornlandings.org</a>