GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:09:30 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:51 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> I sent a message asking for a bit more in-depth feedback, we 
>> will see how that turns out!
>
> I suspect it is like any decision making process where there 
> are N
> places for M applications and N << M, many get culled by fairly
> arbitrary criteria simply to get the numbers down and make the
> decision making tractable.
>
> We are going through this right now with the DevoxxUK 2015 
> programme
> committee, and many of us have a fear we might have missed a 
> good
> proposal in the mass culling needed to get few enough selected 
> not to
> have an overburdened programme.

I imagine you are correct.  I understand that Google can't take 
everyone, and they no doubt have some tough choices, so I don't 
feel that we have been unfairly treated in any way.  I am hoping 
though we can get some feedback so that next year's entry can be 
better though.