Google Summer of Code 2008 is up…

…and neither guitone nor monotone will be a part of it.

Google just put the list of mentoring organizations online and our direct competitors, namely git and Mercurial, of course got slots. On #gsoc on Freenode a Google employee told the crowd about a total of 505 applications this year, where only 20 or so have been spam, so it seemed to be a rather hard selection on Google’s side as well, because in the end only 175 organizations could be accepted, mainly for organizational reasons.

Now while I was almost sure that my application with guitone would not be accepted (this was kind of already written in the FAQ), it is surely a shame that we couldn’t bring up some ressources for a proper application for monotone.

Sure, no application is better than a half-baked application, which, in the end, may create bad karma and reputation for the project itself, but still, I’m feeling a bit depressed right now.

Maybe next year… in the meantime I hope people are at least willing to work on a successful European Monotone Summit