No GSoC 2012

WordPress was rejected as a mentoring organization from GSoC for this summer. This is unexpected, as I spent some time during the application period talking with Carol (Smith, the GSoC administrator) about our proposed approach of building a release cycle around GSoC and making it a mentorship-focused release and she seemed to approve the idea.

We can still do a summer mentorship-focused release for 3.5 if we want to, though. We could pimp it as independent study for credit for college students and put more focus on non-student potential contributors, such as from the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme ranks. If nothing else, it would avoid the inevitable couple of students who are only in it for the $$. We’ll need to decide if we still want to do something along these lines, or if we don’t.

Why did we get rejected? We don’t know yet. I used last year’s successful application as a template. There will be a feedback meeting in a week or so, and Carol says to attend that when it is announced and we can find out why during that meeting.

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