[PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That is indeed true.  I suppose it wouldn't hurt to nag google, and it  
might even help.  But I don't think it would change this year's outcome.

I think the key to getting a grant like this is to know what they are  
looking for and tailor the grant to that.  It would be useful if  
someone tried to find any materials from the successful projects and  
report back what they learned.  I tried to do that in the past.

.hc

On Mar 20, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Rich E wrote:

> Of course it would be nice to do the projects regardless of funding,
> but in reality they just won't get the same attention to detail and
> thoroughness.  I don't have a job except through grants like this..
>
> I'm still all for making apython libpd module... but who knows when
> summer rolls around and i'm broke.
>
> Do you think it is any good to question/complain to google about not
> getting accepted two years in a row?  I looked at some of the other
> project pages and not only is the pd application just as good, I think
> the proposed projects are much more valuable to the open source
> community.  I don't want to name anything in specific, but I saw some
> well funded projects that only proposed various bug fixes, that were
> accepted (literally there is a project that says "go through the bugs
> list and fix whatever you can).
>
> regards,
> Rich
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> So now we have a nice collection of projects sketched out from the  
>> GSoC
>> application, let's encourage people to take them on.  If anyone  
>> wants to get
>> involved with Pd development, take a look at the project ideas and  
>> if you
>> are interested, then ask about them on the list and we can get  
>> started.
>>
>> http://puredata.info/dev/summer-of-code/GoogleSummerOfCodeIdeas2009
>>
>> I think next time someone else should take on the GSoC application  
>> process.
>> I'm 2 for 2 at not getting it,  I've never had much luck with  
>> grants.  And
>> we have lots of well-sketched out projects.  We should probably  
>> chuck the
>> application part and start from scratch.
>>
>> .hc
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