Unfortunately, DuraSpace was not accepted into the Google Summer of Code program for 2014. A follow up discussion with Carol Smith from Google via IRC and email, we learned that this was primarily because of Google's interest in accepting new organizations over known organizations.
(10:00:40 AM) carols: =====BEGIN GSOC 2014 ORG REJECTION FEEDBACK MEETING==== (10:00:40 AM) carols: hi everyone, thanks for coming (10:00:58 AM) carols: this year we got 371 (well, technically 372) applications from organizations for the program. (10:01:03 AM) carols: we accepted 190 organizations in total (10:01:28 AM) carols: but unfortunately, we always have less space for orgs than we have applications. (10:01:56 AM) carols: this year we emphasized, as we have in the past, accepting organizations that have never participated before and/or were small communities (10:02:16 AM) carols: we again saw a huge amount of applications from folks in the bioinformatics, life sciences, and biology fields (10:02:37 AM) carols: but we also got some great new applications from fields we've never had participate before ... (10:07:50 AM) carols: yeah, we try to choose as wide a variety of projects as we can to benefit the students (10:08:07 AM) carols: and sometimes that means rejecting a lot of orgs in a particular topic area if the competition is stiff ... Unfortunately IRC on 'freenode.net' became unresponsive mid-meeting. So, Tim was unable to talk directly to Carol via IRC. However, after emailing Carol for feedback, she responded: "This was simply a matter of wanting to make space for new orgs this year. We hope you'll try again next year! Cheers, Carol"
We did not receive any specific feedback on our Ideas list (Google Summer of Code Ideas).
