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digitalmars.D.announce - GSoC 2017 Application Rejected

reply CRAIG DILLABAUGH <craig.dillabaugh gmail.com> writes:
Hello D Community

Just coming here to inform everyone that our D application for 
GSoC 2017 was sadly rejected.  Unfortunately (for me) it is 
completely my fault, I failed to fill out one line on one of the 
three forms that comprised the application.  Even more 
frustrating I went online on the 8th to make sure that everything 
was in order and I noticed and filled in the offending line. 
However I must have either failed to hit 'save' or the save 
itself failed (I will assume the later since that makes me look 
less incompetent).

To make matters worse I got an automated email from Google at 3am 
the morning of the deadline warning me, but since I had a 
particularly busy day at work on the 9th I didn't get a chance to 
check my email until shortly after noon on Feb 9th. At which 
point it was too late.

So I want to apologize to the D community for this mix up on my 
part, and in particular to those who invested time in helping get 
ready for this year's GSoC and to you students who were looking 
forward to applying.  However, for anyone who did work on the 
Ideas page that can at least be re-used and we now have a much 
fuller list.

Regards

Craig
Feb 10 2017
next sibling parent reply bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 19:00:54 UTC, CRAIG DILLABAUGH 
wrote:

 Hello D Community

 Just coming here to inform everyone that our D application for 
 GSoC 2017 was sadly rejected.  Unfortunately (for me) it is 
 completely my fault, I failed to fill out one line on one of 
 the three forms that comprised the application.  Even more 
 frustrating I went online on the 8th to make sure that 
 everything was in order and I noticed and filled in the 
 offending line. However I must have either failed to hit 'save' 
 or the save itself failed (I will assume the later since that 
 makes me look less incompetent).

 To make matters worse I got an automated email from Google at 
 3am the morning of the deadline warning me, but since I had a 
 particularly busy day at work on the 9th I didn't get a chance 
 to check my email until shortly after noon on Feb 9th. At which 
 point it was too late.

 So I want to apologize to the D community for this mix up on my 
 part, and in particular to those who invested time in helping 
 get ready for this year's GSoC and to you students who were 
 looking forward to applying.  However, for anyone who did work 
 on the Ideas page that can at least be re-used and we now have 
 a much fuller list.

 Regards

 Craig


Thanks for your effort. If someone else doesn't like it, well, I 
guess I don't remember a big competition among volunteers for the 
position.
Feb 10 2017
parent CRAIG DILLABAUGH <craig.dillabaugh gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 19:37:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

 On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 19:00:54 UTC, CRAIG DILLABAUGH 
 wrote:

 Hello D Community




clip

 Regards

 Craig


 Thanks for your effort. If someone else doesn't like it, well, 
 I guess I don't remember a big competition among volunteers for 
 the position.


You are welcome.  Even though I am unlikely to be fired it was 
disappointing and I know a number of people were excited, and 
were looking forward to this. Last year's success set the bar 
pretty high. At least the mentors and such will now have some 
extra time to devote to other worthwhile D projects over the 
summer.

Craig
Feb 10 2017
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
Hi Craig,

So sorry to hear that this happened.  I know very well from 
working with you last year how much care and attention you put 
into GSoC, so I can imagine how you must feel right now.

In the circumstances it seems best to focus on: how could we try 
to stop something like this happening again?  One thing that 
occurs to me is that it might be a good idea for the email 
address through which the application is submitted to forward to 
a couple of other people, who could step in should there be an 
emergency like this (with the principle being, whoever gets such 
an emergency alert deals with it ASAP, unless they hear that it's 
dealt with from the other people involved).

What do you think?

Best wishes,

     -- Joe
Feb 10 2017
parent CRAIG DILLABAUGH <craig.dillabaugh gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 20:21:56 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:

 Hi Craig,

 So sorry to hear that this happened.  I know very well from 
 working with you last year how much care and attention you put 
 into GSoC, so I can imagine how you must feel right now.

 In the circumstances it seems best to focus on: how could we 
 try to stop something like this happening again?  One thing 
 that occurs to me is that it might be a good idea for the email 
 address through which the application is submitted to forward 
 to a couple of other people, who could step in should there be 
 an emergency like this (with the principle being, whoever gets 
 such an emergency alert deals with it ASAP, unless they hear 
 that it's dealt with from the other people involved).

 What do you think?

 Best wishes,

     -- Joe


Joe good point.  The first thing I thought after this happened is 
'what should I do to prevent this from happening again?' We are 
supposed to have a backup administrator.  I had added an email 
(for backup admin) to the admin list but while the individual 
confirmed his interest to me I don't know if he confirmed with 
Google (they send an invite when you register someone).  Perhaps 
they would have pinged him too had the invite been accepted, but 
I am not sure, I will ask the Google folks.

In any case, next year I will make sure we have one or two backup 
admins signed up well ahead of time who could act as a backup for 
submission even if that was all they had to do.

Cheers

Craig
Feb 10 2017
prev sibling next sibling parent Jeremy DeHaan <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 19:00:54 UTC, CRAIG DILLABAUGH 
wrote:

 Hello D Community

 Just coming here to inform everyone that our D application for 
 GSoC 2017 was sadly rejected.  Unfortunately (for me) it is 
 completely my fault, I failed to fill out one line on one of 
 the three forms that comprised the application.  Even more 
 frustrating I went online on the 8th to make sure that 
 everything was in order and I noticed and filled in the 
 offending line. However I must have either failed to hit 'save' 
 or the save itself failed (I will assume the later since that 
 makes me look less incompetent).

 To make matters worse I got an automated email from Google at 
 3am the morning of the deadline warning me, but since I had a 
 particularly busy day at work on the 9th I didn't get a chance 
 to check my email until shortly after noon on Feb 9th. At which 
 point it was too late.

 So I want to apologize to the D community for this mix up on my 
 part, and in particular to those who invested time in helping 
 get ready for this year's GSoC and to you students who were 
 looking forward to applying.  However, for anyone who did work 
 on the Ideas page that can at least be re-used and we now have 
 a much fuller list.

 Regards

 Craig


Not sure how viable this is, but would the D Foundation be able 
to do its own version of the Summer of Code? The D Summer of Code?

Depending on how much money it has, it could pick some students 
that were working on proposals and pay them what Google would 
have paid them based on performance like in the real GSoC.
Feb 10 2017
prev sibling parent Martin Nowak <code dawg.eu> writes:
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 19:00:54 UTC, CRAIG DILLABAUGH 
wrote:

 Hello D Community


Unfortunate, I guess the best improvement for the next GSoC is 
getting more help (people) to cater for the 
application/organization.
Feb 11 2017