Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2009-04-11, Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Obey Arthur Liu wrote:
>> === And the details: ===
> [...]
> These descriptions are very short. Assuming these are the abstracts, 
> that's not the students' fault. The abstracts were shortened this year 
> to 500 characters. I struggled to shorten mine to fit this. At this 
> length, it's probably impossible to fit a decent summary of most 
> projects. It would normally make sense to use abstracts for this use 
> case. Maybe Google should be asked to change the limit. Otherwise I'd 
> like to see a custom description which describes a little further. I 
> currently can't comment on all projects presented.
> That said, this shortlist remains useful, and I thank you for this great 
> jump in transparency.

Mind to tell us what your proposed project was?  For more transparency?

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern