From: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>
Date: 2009-03-25T06:12:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Central rejected as a Google Summer of Code organization

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:21 AM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
> I think many of you know this already but I just wanted to confirm it.
>
> The Google Summer of Code program has rejected Ruby Central this year as a
> mentoring organization, a role we've played every year since 2006. No
> explanation for the rejection was offered. (When I pressed for an
> explanation, I got a courteous response but no substantive information about
> their decision.)
>
> I find this very disappointing, and I'm sorry to have to bring the news to
> those of you who had started to give serious thought to Summer of Code
> projects.

This is disappointing, but not a death knell for interested students
and mentors. Rails is acting as a mentoring organization and we'd be
happy to join forces to get awesome but peripherally Rails-related
projects going this summer as well.

For example, last summer's rubyspec push was a great success.
Continuing that work for ruby 1.9 would be a boon to the whole
community. Similarly with debugging, profiling, and other tooling.

So keep your engines fired up! Dedicated mentors from years past are
particularly welcome :)

Best,
jeremy