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

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Obey Arthur Liu wrote:
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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.