Re: Summer of Code

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > We were never contacted. I did know about it through other channels, > but I really hadn't paid enough attention to the details. I didn't > realize they would close the eligible projects like that. I figured > they would be accepting any valid-sounding proposals regardless of their > origin. When I first went to the page, I saw a short list of selected groups, but I totally missed that they were opening it up to other organizations to apply. By the time I returned and realized, they had closed the window. (One day seems short. I bet they were flooded with requests.) You think they could extend the window for applications installed on > 20,00,000 domains or something similar. If they're hardline, I wonder if we could sneak in using our "sister" affiliation with the ASF, or is that something I don't want to go near with a 10' pole? :) -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com | http://www.trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's "upgrading to php 5" and "php cookbook" avoid the holiday rush, buy your copies today!