Google has now sent out acceptance/rejection letters, so all students should be hearing from Google shortly.<br><br>Just to give people an idea of how fierce the competition was, we received 208 applications, of which 186 were considered eligible for consideration. We had roughly 50 mentors signed up, ready and very willing to take on students (some willing to take on multiple students). But we were only allocated 25 slots by Google (they have about 100 organizations for 454 slots, with the PSF tying with the ASF as having the highest number of slots so we were lucky to have even 25).
<br><br>To those of you who were not accepted, please do not take it as suggesting your application was not good. For instance, several third-party applications received multiple applications that were scheduled to be accepted. But when we got our final acceptance number from Google priorities to projects that would benefit the application group had to be made and their total slot allocation was capped so as to spread the application acceptances amongst a wide range of groups.
<br><br>Thus do not take a rejection as a comment that your idea was considered bad. If you are interested in still doing your project feel free to contact the group that your application applies to and see if they would still be interested in helping you sans funding from Google.
<br><br>To those of you who did get accepted, congratulations! You will be receiving an email with more details instructions on what you need to do to get started and should be hearing from your mentors shortly.<br><br>Thank you all for participating in SoC 2006!
<br><br><br>-Brett