Google Summer of Code 2014 - not participating
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.