Google Summer of Code 2013(?)

[David Nadlinger]

On Sunday, 24 March 2013 at 14:48:30 UTC, alex wrote:
> I've just read that there are only 5 days remaining for 
> organization applications
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
>
> Will Digitalmars do it a further year? Or are there too many 
> resources spent on managing DConf?

I was meaning to write this post myself right now:

In my opinion, we can't afford to miss the chance to participate 
in the Summer of Code for a third time. For this to be possible, 
though, we ned to throw together an application, and pronto.

Also, as far as I can see, in both of the previous two years, the 
work by one student was not actually incorporated into the 
upstream projects or made available in an easily usable way: 
Cristi Cobzarenco's SciD work from 2011) and Antti-Ville 
Tuunainen's garbage collector improvements from last year. (Note 
aside: It seems like in both of the cases, David Simcha was the 
mentor, but this could just be a coincidence.)

We need to quickly come up with and commit to a strategy to make 
sure this does not happen again. Otherwise, this will look very 
bad on an application for this year.

David