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Google Summer of Code Project Breakdown
behdad writes "Google's Summer of Code final per-organization project breakdown is out. The Apache Software Foundation is on the top of the list with 38 projects allocated out of total 410 slots, followed by KDE, FreeBSD, and 38 other mentoring organizations. The accepted applications will be posted early next week. More than 8700 applications have been submitted. Thanks Greg Stein and Chris DiBona for the hard work."
of course. about 5500 people that were rejected ;-)
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it was a sort of lottery. imho if you had an independent project not following the ideas posted earlier by the mentoring organizations - your chances were low - judgin on some discussions after acceptance/rejection of proposals.
mine got rejected
michal
That was obvious from the first paragraph. In general, following the recommendations for any application process is a good idea. You'll find this theme repeated pretty much everywhere. Reviewers are looking for something. Your best chance is to give it to them.
Actually, GNOME didn't do so bad at all:
GNOME: 12
GNOME/GTK-based applications:
Gaim: 15
Inkscape: 4
Total: 31
To this figure: add Ubuntu and Fedora, two GNOME-oriented distros, and I bet some of their combined 27 Coders will do something that's GNOME-related in some way.
And Apache is on the first place because it makes improvements to Apache are improvements to the web, and the web is what gives Google money. That alone is reason enough to sponsor Apache.
My guess is that there were more - and more interesting project suggestions for KDE than Gnome. I doubt that Apache's high number has anything to do with Google's use of apache. It will be related to innovation and usefulness. If you look at the lists of suggested projects, ASF probably has the biggest number. Apache projects also have the capability to be useful to more people.
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The counts were not based on the organizations' utility to Google. Most of it is based on popularity, on the capacity of the org, and some feedback from the orgs.
The ASF ended up with the most because it was the second-most popular, and because they have a LOT of people available for mentoring.
GAIM had the most applications, but were unable to mentor all that many.
Actually, the projects aren't being developed "for us". Students who had ideas that didn't match up well with the organizations requested Google for a sponsor. So "our" projects are actually a pretty eclectic sort.
And remember that it will all be Open Source. The SoC students are developing code for *everybody*.
"They are loading up with PHds and scientists. If these guys had any useful brains, they would be super rich already."
Excuse me? Maybe PhDs and scientists are smart enough to realize that there is more to life than just money, such as perhaps having an interesting and fun job?
There are many different types of intelligence, and the most capable scientists and engineers may likely not have the best business sense. That doesn't meant that Google doesn't have people with good business sense, too, though. Perhaps a little division of labor?!? (Microsoft does that, too.)
So, basically it boils down to KDE being a more centralized, and consistant base, with usually a few custom (config) apps added in. However, Gnome isn't, so there's a lot more parallel effort to get it to the state KDE is in. (You've got to pull in a IM client, media player and lots of other apps which are part of KDE's base (meaning by that the common packages (kdegames, kdepim, kdemultimedia, etc), not just 'kdebase').
I happen to feel that KDE's way is better, but that's my personal opinion.