Re: GSoC 2009, not accepted as a project this year.

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 13:09 +0000, David Coallier wrote: > Well I think the title says it all. We weren't accepted as a Google > Summer of Code project for 2009. Another news that may shock some of > you is that we aren't going to participate under the PHP umbrella this > year either. David (and others involved), Thanks for doing the Google Summer of Code application work for PEAR. Also, David, thank you for the excellent summary on the reasoning and status of GSoC for PEAR. It is unfortunate that Google did not accept PEAR as an organization. Even though we were not accepted this year I think it is worth applying as an independent organization again next year for the reasons you outlined in your email. Following PEAR's rejection, I've had a couple of potential students email me about the Amazon Web Services proposal I posted on the PEAR wiki [1]. It seems the PHP GSoC wiki page [2] tells students that if there are spare PHP project slots, some slots may be used for PEAR/PECL projects. I'd like to get some confirmation from PEAR/PHP as to whether or not that statement is accurate. So far, I've been telling students that PEAR was not accepted, and have been linking to David's mailing list post. That said, even after telling students the proposal is no longer suitable as a GSoC project, there are still several developers interested in helping out. Some of these developers and myself will most likely be doing the work over the summer without Google funding. Cheers, Mike [1] http://wiki.php.net/pear/gsoc/2009 [2] http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2009