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 'freenode.net' crashed mid-meeting. 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"
