[Soc2006] decision clarification

[Petro Verkhogliad]

On 5/24/06, Arc Riley <arc at xiph.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Petro
>
> Again, we had roughly 50 proposals that we wanted to accept out of the
> roughly 200 we received.  However, only 25 could be accepted.
>
> Just because your proposal wasn't accepted doesn't mean it wasn't
> understood or desireable.  We just couldn't accept every proposal we
> liked and had to make some really hard choice over the last 4 days.


That is what i was really trying  to get to.  I (like so many others) was
looking for some comments on the application or reasoning why some projects
were picked over others. Having said that, the fact that i was not accepted
does irk me a little, but it doesn't mean that i can't contribute to the
probject anyway.

I lost all three students I was looking to mentor in that process.  All
> three of their proposals were excellent.
>
> Sorry you didn't make the cut either.


Thank you. But such is the nature of the competition.

PV

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:41:40PM -0400, Petro Verkhogliad wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i submitted an application for a TurboGears project with was eventually
> not
> > accepted. While I understand the nature of the competition I would
> > appreciate some clarification as to the decision. My proposal was
> GearBox
> > for TurboGears. The end result of this project would have been a
> > self-contained python+turbogears bundle. This is similar to Locomotive
> in
> > the Ruby on Rails world.
> >
> > At any rate, any comments would be appreciated.
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