Hi Guys,
The best bet is to reach out to someone at Google and find out why as well as what can be done about it.
Thanks, Rich
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Aleksey Bragin aleksey@reactos.org wrote:
On Mar 21, 2009, at 11:04 PM, François Revol wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to let you know our application has not been accepted into Google Summer of Code, for the third time in a row. I attached an (autogenerated) reply, which encourages us to reapply for future instances of the program. I would not find a better way to express sarcasm than asking us to reapply in future.
It's indeed sad to know ReactOS didn't make it.
It was expected though :)
Our friendly OS project Haiku gets accepted every year, so being an OS is not a problem. Wine is certainly accepted every year from the beginning, and this year is not an exception. So it's definately not a problem of "legal fear" of Microsoft.
In the same spirit of sharing from the FOSDEM invitation, I'm sure we could find some projects on Haiku that would benefit ReactOS as well. Some time ago I talked about the webcam driver I wrote, which could likely be made portable. Another developer already started adding UVC support to it, so it'd likely be interesting to ROS as well.
Thanks a lot, but this could limit your own participation, since number of slots is usually very limited. It's really nice to offer this from your side.
I'd suggest looking for projects you'd be interested in on http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/GoogleSummerOfCodeIdeas The students pick the ones they want but likely we could put them first on our wish list.
An other topic of interest could be the network drivers we ported from FreeBSD, likely you could take inspiration from our compatibility layer.
Yes, we surely could find something which benefits both of us.
Also, something that seemed to appeal to Google last year was our attempt at extending the allocated GSoC slots by running our own funded HCD (Haiku Code Drive), to sponsor some more projects. see: http://www.haiku-os.org/tags/hcd2008_0
We are preparing a similar thing called Community Funded Ideas. It's not ready for big announcement yet, but we are working towards it.
Surely running your own event would entice Google to value your own investment and reconsider for next year.
Honestly, they exhausted my level of patience. So, I rather see CFI as a better substitute for GSoC, also it lets community to take part in decision process.
What is the problem then? I leave it to you to decide what's the problem. However, as for me, I see Google Summer of Code is nothing close to supporting free software world, but rather an expensive way of advertising.
Undoubtedly it gives them a lot of advertising, but I do hope there is more to it :)
I was slightly exaggerating certainly :)
François.
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