[tug-summer-of-code] Rejection Of TUG in Google summer

[Jonathan Fine]

وفا خلیقی wrote:
> I was told that TUg was rejected from google summer of code but as a 
> suggestion I thinks it is quite vauable to get some feedback from google 
> if we can to see why we have been rejected? what can we do so that we 
> will accepted in the next year ?
> 
> What has been the weeknesses of the projects? and etc.

Thank you very much for this excellent question.  By the way, I was a 
mentor last year, and am a TUG board member elect, taking office in the 
Summer.

Here's a link to a page where Google explains its selection criteria:
<http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/orgcriteria>

I think it would be very helpful to compare ourselves, using these 
criteria, with related projects who were accepted.

Here's my short list of related projects.  The full list is at
<http://socghop.appspot.com/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2009>

AbiWord
OpenOffice
WordPress


My long list would include all the wiki and content management projects, 
because they need to handle mathematical content, and may have a need 
for back-end PDF generation.

Drupal
Joomla!
MoinMoin
Moodle
TikiWiki
Xwiki

My long list would also include Pidgin (for math chat) and perhaps some 
other projects.

-- 
Jonathan