GSoC 2017 Application Rejected

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce]

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.