Google Summer of Code 2014 is currently open for mentoring organizations to register.

I’ve decided to not apply for GSoC with my data mining open source project ELKI anymore.

  • You don’t get any feedback for your application. So unless you were accepted, you have no idea if it is worth trying again (I tried twice).
  • As far as I can tell, you only have a chance if there is someone at Google advocating your project. For example, someone involved in your project actually working at Google.
  • I don’t really trust Google anymore. They’ve been too much exploiting their market dominance, leveraging YouTube and Android to force people into Google+ etc. (see Google turning evil blog post).
  • I’ll be looking for a Post-Doc position in fall, so the timing of the GSoC isn’t ideal anyway.