[ros-dev] Google Summer of Code

[Sarocet]

Aleksey Bragin wrote:
> I'd like to let you know our application has not been accepted into
> Google Summer of Code, for the third time in a row
A pity. ROS would have been a good candidate to fulfill Ubuntu slot.

> I just stated a few examples. I highly value those projects, however I
> just can't understand that yet another framework in python, or a game
> engine for a turnbased strategies, or a collection of FOSS software
> for Windows with a package manager (which we already have, and which
> could have been improved), or an institution which believes that AI
> takes over the world and tries to stop that are way more important
> than supporting an organization whose product would be of use for
> millions of people, and would create a real alternative operating
> system compatible with the vast majority of existing software and
> hardware.

Have you tried asking all of this to gsoc people? (that would probably
be Leslie Hawthorn)