From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T12:55:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Summer of Code Advice For Ruby Central Applications

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> If you submitted an application to Ruby Central in the Google Summer
> of Code and it got rejected, you may be wondering what you can do.
> 
> For one thing, don't get too upset: it isn't personal. We received 84
> eligible applications, but Google only sponsored 10 of them. Bad news:
> if you were of the 74, you got rejected. Good news: you had about a 1
> in 8 chance of being selected.
> 
> So how can you increase your chances next year?
> 
> Here is what I suggest, in order of importance (keep in mind this is
> my personal opinion and is not necessarily Ruby Central opinion):
>   ...


Wow.  That kicked ass.

Informative, detailed (but not verbose), and well-written.


Thanks.  (I didn't have an SoC submission, but making it easier for 
people writing submissions in the future will help others help Ruby to 
improve.  That's a Good Thing.)


-- 
James Britt

"Simplicity of the language  is not what matters, but
simplicity of use."


  - Richard A. O'Keefe in squeak-dev mailing list