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Linux Foundation and Tor Project were also not accepted.

by middleclick 12y ago

mintplant 12y ago
Nor was OGRE, for the second time running. Haskell made it in, though.
- deleted 12y ago
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broodbucket 12y ago
Neither was Blender, after 10 years in the program.
crncosta 12y ago
I saw perl6 was not accepted too.
puzzlingcaptcha 12y ago
Interesting to see the XMPP foundation and Pidgin on the list in the light of Gtalk shutdown.
- trwired 12y ago
  What they did was discontinue support for their old desktop client. Third party clients still use XMPP to connect with Hangouts. More on the subject could be read here: http://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-google-talk/ http://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-googl...
  - teraflop 12y ago
    If you read that blog post fully, it says that you can't connect to Hangouts with XMPP. See also: https://developers.google.com/talk/ https://developers.google.com/talk/ "We announced a new communications product, Hangouts, in May 2013. Hangouts will replace Google Talk and does not support XMPP." You can still connect to Google Talk (not Hangouts) with a third-party client, but Google has not kept up with developments in the standard (particularly the requirement for server-to-server encryption) and is no longer interoperable with most other providers.
    - trwired 12y ago
      Apologies for merging the two in my head. However, as of now, you can still connect to Google Talk and the shutdown that was mentioned did not affect third party clients. The conclusion is that XMPP is still used at Google to some extent (although there is no way of telling how well or how long it will be used and supported in the future, but that is beside the point).
unhammer 12y ago
Nor Apertium, after taking part since 2009
jordigh 12y ago
Nor GNU Octave, but this makes me kind of glad. We have enough donation money to sponsor a student of our own. I think we might do it through the Outreach Programme for Women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_Outreach_Program_for_Women https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_...
- patzerhacker 12y ago
  >I think we might do it through the Outreach Programme for Women. Because nothing says "I'm for gender equality" quite like a "boys not allowed!" sign.
  - jordigh 12y ago
    Sigh, this again... I'll reply, against my better judgement. Boys are plenty allowed everywhere else. They're allowed in GSoC, just as the girls are. However, the gender inequality is already staggering in favour of boys. Having a tiny programme with 40 female students allowed instead of the hundreds (thousands?) of mostly boys in GSoC does not mean that the horrible women are out to destroy all manhood. Or in the words of HN favourite Julia Evans, "women-only spaces are a hack": https://medium.com/@b0rk/women-only-spaces-are-a-hack-a548c1ed6728 https://medium.com/@b0rk/women-only-spaces-are-a-hack-a548c1...
    - patzerhacker 12y ago
      Before I compose this reply I want to mention that I'm a woman of color in case anybody needs to do a privilege check to see if it's okay for me to speak on this issue or whether it's acceptable to silence me because I'm "obviously" a white cis het male. >The gender inequality is already staggering in favour of boys. Serious question: Do you think this is a conscious choice made by those in the tech field? I ask because my lived experience is different than that, and yes, it's a serious question even though my response may have been flippant above. >Having a tiny programme with 40 students allowed instead of the hundreds (thousands?) of GSoC does not mean that the horrible women are out to destroy all manhood. That's not what I said at all. I'm asking why champions of gender equality seem to favor the tactic of exclusion.

Linux Foundation and Tor Project were also not accepted.

mintplant 12y ago

Nor was OGRE, for the second time running. Haskell made it in, though.

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broodbucket 12y ago

Neither was Blender, after 10 years in the program.

crncosta 12y ago

I saw perl6 was not accepted too.

puzzlingcaptcha 12y ago

Interesting to see the XMPP foundation and Pidgin on the list in the light of Gtalk shutdown.

trwired 12y ago
What they did was discontinue support for their old desktop client. Third party clients still use XMPP to connect with Hangouts. More on the subject could be read here: http://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-google-talk/ http://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-googl...
- teraflop 12y ago
  If you read that blog post fully, it says that you can't connect to Hangouts with XMPP. See also: https://developers.google.com/talk/ https://developers.google.com/talk/ "We announced a new communications product, Hangouts, in May 2013. Hangouts will replace Google Talk and does not support XMPP." You can still connect to Google Talk (not Hangouts) with a third-party client, but Google has not kept up with developments in the standard (particularly the requirement for server-to-server encryption) and is no longer interoperable with most other providers.
  - trwired 12y ago
    Apologies for merging the two in my head. However, as of now, you can still connect to Google Talk and the shutdown that was mentioned did not affect third party clients. The conclusion is that XMPP is still used at Google to some extent (although there is no way of telling how well or how long it will be used and supported in the future, but that is beside the point).

unhammer 12y ago

Nor Apertium, after taking part since 2009

jordigh 12y ago

Nor GNU Octave, but this makes me kind of glad. We have enough donation money to sponsor a student of our own. I think we might do it through the Outreach Programme for Women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_Outreach_Program_for_Women https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_...

patzerhacker 12y ago
>I think we might do it through the Outreach Programme for Women. Because nothing says "I'm for gender equality" quite like a "boys not allowed!" sign.
- jordigh 12y ago
  Sigh, this again... I'll reply, against my better judgement. Boys are plenty allowed everywhere else. They're allowed in GSoC, just as the girls are. However, the gender inequality is already staggering in favour of boys. Having a tiny programme with 40 female students allowed instead of the hundreds (thousands?) of mostly boys in GSoC does not mean that the horrible women are out to destroy all manhood. Or in the words of HN favourite Julia Evans, "women-only spaces are a hack": https://medium.com/@b0rk/women-only-spaces-are-a-hack-a548c1ed6728 https://medium.com/@b0rk/women-only-spaces-are-a-hack-a548c1...
  - patzerhacker 12y ago
    Before I compose this reply I want to mention that I'm a woman of color in case anybody needs to do a privilege check to see if it's okay for me to speak on this issue or whether it's acceptable to silence me because I'm "obviously" a white cis het male. >The gender inequality is already staggering in favour of boys. Serious question: Do you think this is a conscious choice made by those in the tech field? I ask because my lived experience is different than that, and yes, it's a serious question even though my response may have been flippant above. >Having a tiny programme with 40 students allowed instead of the hundreds (thousands?) of GSoC does not mean that the horrible women are out to destroy all manhood. That's not what I said at all. I'm asking why champions of gender equality seem to favor the tactic of exclusion.