Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015
By Florian Quèze on Tuesday, March 3 2015, 10:56 - Mozilla - Permalink
As you may have already seen, Mozilla is not in the list of organizations accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015.
People who have observed the list carefully may have noticed that there are fewer accepted organizations this year: 137 (down from 190 in 2014 and 177 in 2013). Other organizations that have participated successfully several times are also not in the 2015 list (eg. Linux Foundation, Tor, ...).
After a quick email exchange with Google last night, here is the additional information I have:
This news has been a surprise for me. I am disappointed, and I'm sure lots of people reading this are disappointed too. I would like to thank all the people who considered participating this year with Mozilla, and especially all the Mozillians who volunteered to mentor and contributed great project ideas. I would also like to remind students that while Summer of Code is a great opportunity to contribute to Mozilla, it's not the only one. Feel free to contact mentors if you would like to work on some of the suggested ideas anyway.
Let's try again next year!
People who have observed the list carefully may have noticed that there are fewer accepted organizations this year: 137 (down from 190 in 2014 and 177 in 2013). Other organizations that have participated successfully several times are also not in the 2015 list (eg. Linux Foundation, Tor, ...).
After a quick email exchange with Google last night, here is the additional information I have:
- not accepting Mozilla was a difficult decision for them. It is not the result of a mistake on our part or an accident on their side.
- there's an assumption that not participating for one year would not be as damaging for us as it would be for some other organizations, due to us having already participated many times.
- this event doesn't affect negatively our chances of being selected next year, and we are encouraged to apply again.
This news has been a surprise for me. I am disappointed, and I'm sure lots of people reading this are disappointed too. I would like to thank all the people who considered participating this year with Mozilla, and especially all the Mozillians who volunteered to mentor and contributed great project ideas. I would also like to remind students that while Summer of Code is a great opportunity to contribute to Mozilla, it's not the only one. Feel free to contact mentors if you would like to work on some of the suggested ideas anyway.
Let's try again next year!
Comments
So let's launch Mozilla Summer of Code ;)
We already have some good tools to track good first bug and students projects.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Good_first...
http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsaho...
https://github.com/Mozilla-Student-...
i'm suuuure this has nothing to do with Mozilla changing the default search engine in Firefox. "Don't be evil"? yeah, right! Guck Foogle!
After backtracking on default disk encryption in Android 5.0 and now blocking Tor from this event, I'd say you're better off not going. Google has become a very bad guy saying "Do no evil." It is best not to associate with such bad guys.
We (diaspora*) were not accepted either, when it was fine last year. Google...
Sad. I never would have expected this. Bad Google. Darn it, I'll continue with Mozilla, GSOC or not.
Maybe it's time for the foundation to do a Mozilla Summer of Code dedicated to projects for Mozilla?
If you have the funds, do your own! Mozilla is big and well-known enough to pull people.
I would like to contribute to the proposed ideas and increase my knowledge and experience by working with one of the greatest minds of all time.
I think we at Mozilla can make awesome Soummers of Code. :)
We already run a "summer of making" the focus is just not only on coding :) much more inclusive to help people make as a general concept :) its called Mozilla "Maker party" and runs all year round see webmaker.org/events.
Yes, its always upsetting to not be invited to the party, happened to us last year at JavaOne in San Francisco, I still had a maker party with the help of other Mozillians during the conference and we had an awesome time. Google will do what Google thinks is best for them, does not stop us Mozillians hosting our own Maker party in our communities locally to us using Webmaker as our community portal to share what we are doing.
So everyone who had/shared an idea for the Summer of code project, make sure to have a Mozilla persona, list it on Webmaker.org/events and let us know when you are going to be doing it anyways ;)
This year as we did not get invited to JavaOnes kids maker party, are