10:15 a.m.
Hi all:
I received an email from Google stating that our application to GSoC
2009 was rejected :-(
I can probably attempt again with a better application next year.
I'd like to thank everyone showing an interest, volunteering and
suggesting various project ideas.
Best regards
Talha
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11:05 a.m.
Did they give any reason to why it was rejected?
Andreas
gretl-devel-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu skrev 2009-03-19 11:15:10 :
Hi all:
I received an email from Google stating that our application to GSoC
2009 was rejected :-(
I can probably attempt again with a better application next year.
I'd like to thank everyone showing an interest, volunteering and
suggesting various project ideas.
Best regards
Talha
--
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far
more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment.” - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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11:14 a.m.
No, the mesage was generic:
Thank you for submitting "Gretl (Gnu Regression, Econometrics
and
Time-series Library)" organization application to Google Summer of Code
2009. Unfortunately, we were unable to accept your organization's
application at this time. We received many more applications for the program
than we are able to accommodate, and we would encourage you to reapply for
future instances of the program.
Best regards,
Google Open Source Programs
--
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far
more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment.” - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
--
10:29 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Talha Yalta wrote:
No, the mesage was generic:
> Thank you for submitting "Gretl (Gnu Regression, Econometrics and
> Time-series Library)" organization application to Google Summer of Code
> 2009. Unfortunately, we were unable to accept your organization's
> application at this time. We received many more applications for the program
> than we are able to accommodate, and we would encourage you to reapply for
> future instances of the program.
Well, of course this is not good news. But on the other hand, I have the
feeling that we, as the gretl community, may not be ready yet for
something like the GSoC. Development has always been mainly on Allin's
shoulders, and lately I haven't been able to provide even the little
help I gave in the past.
Andreas' work on building gretl on a Win32 system is of enormous
importance, since it removes a huge block towards enlarging the pool of C
coders. I'll feel much more confident in applying for the GSoC when we
have a solid base of at least 4/5 stable contributors.
I don't mean to be negative. Talha spent quite a lot of energy and
dedication on this, and I am deeply thankful to him. All I'm saying is,
everybody in the community is doing a very fine job (with the testing, the
bug reports, the translations etcetera), but perhaps we still have some
way to go.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti
10:50 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
I don't mean to be negative. Talha spent quite a lot of energy
and dedication on this, and I am deeply thankful to him. All I'm
saying is, everybody in the community is doing a very fine job
(with the testing, the bug reports, the translations etcetera),
but perhaps we still have some way to go.
Yes, maybe so. But let me add my thanks to Talha for giving it a
try this year.
Allin.
1:18 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> I don't mean to be negative. Talha spent quite a lot of energy
> and dedication on this, and I am deeply thankful to him. All I'm
> saying is, everybody in the community is doing a very fine job
> (with the testing, the bug reports, the translations etcetera),
> but perhaps we still have some way to go.
Yes, maybe so. But let me add my thanks to Talha for giving it a
try this year.
P.S. I've Just taken a look at the projects that succeeded this
year, at
http://socghop.appspot.com/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2009
There are not very many, and several are _very_ well established,
e.g., GNOME, Debian, Apache, MySQL, GCC, Perl Foundation. On the
other hand, there are a few in the list that, despite having name
recognition, seem (just between you and me) to be losers/has-beens
(AbiWord, MINIX 3, The Enlightenment Project,... yawn). So I'd
hope that we might have a chance next time around.
One thing working against us (aside from the point Jack noted,
namely that we have very few active code developers so far) is
that we're much more specialized than most of the accepted
projects. Econometrics is not for everyone (believe it or not!).
Allin.
9:08 a.m.
gretl-devel-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu skrev 2009-03-20 02:18:11 :
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>
> > I don't mean to be negative. Talha spent quite a lot of energy
> > and dedication on this, and I am deeply thankful to him. All I'm
> > saying is, everybody in the community is doing a very fine job
> > (with the testing, the bug reports, the translations etcetera),
> > but perhaps we still have some way to go.
>
> Yes, maybe so. But let me add my thanks to Talha for giving it a
> try this year.
P.S. I've Just taken a look at the projects that succeeded this
year, at
There are not very many, and several are _very_ well established,
e.g., GNOME, Debian, Apache, MySQL, GCC, Perl Foundation. On the
other hand, there are a few in the list that, despite having name
recognition, seem (just between you and me) to be losers/has-beens
(AbiWord, MINIX 3, The Enlightenment Project,... yawn). So I'd
hope that we might have a chance next time around.
One thing working against us (aside from the point Jack noted,
namely that we have very few active code developers so far) is
that we're much more specialized than most of the accepted
projects. Econometrics is not for everyone (believe it or not!).
Well, one way to make gretl less specialized (and thus attract more
developers) is to develop gretl into a general statistics package. This
would attract people form biostatistics, epidemiology, demography,
chemometry, psychometry, and so on. Without losing any of the econometrics
specialities of gretl. My goal is to start contributing code which helps
develop gretl to a general statistics package.
Andreas
1:01 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:18:11 -0400 (EDT) Allin Cottrell
<cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
AC> projects. Econometrics is not for everyone (believe it or not!).
Alas! ;-)
Stefan
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