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Not sure why there was a decrease in the number of organisations, but for some time they have been not accepting organizations that have been in regularly befor
by justincormack 12y ago
Not sure why there was a decrease in the number of organisations, but for some time they have been not accepting organizations that have been in regularly before.
But there are a bunch of exciting new organizations - I am hoping to mentor for the first time this year for Lowrisc, which is a new organization (in both senses, GSoC and just started), see the projects here [1]
[1] http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/gsoc-2015-ideas/ http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/gsoc-2015-ideas/
- xiaq 12y agoIf there really are a lot of new organizations, that confirms my theory on the GSoC board: they are trying to encourage student developers getting into less-loved open source projects. In comparison the big projects already get quite some love (likely still not enough, but already a lot), so dropping them once in a while is a reasonable tradeoff for helping out the smaller projects.
- Manishearth 12y agoLast year there was a 10% increase in everything (orgs, students, money) as a commemoration of the 10th anniversary. That can explain the "decrease", since that increase wasn't permanent. Though it's less than 2013 too IIRC>