Hi folks,
As I'm sure you all know, Google has now accepted 6 students to work on projects for Wine.
Alexandre, Dan Kegel, Lionel Ulmer, Dimi O'Paun and I worked on the Wine committee that reviewed the applications, and we were all impressed by the depth and quality of the applications, and we're excited to have 6 fresh new workers on Wine.
We're working right now on connecting these 6 students with their mentors; we hope to announce more details once we've made those connections.
To be honest, we're running a bit behind here; I think Google jumped into this without being as prepared as you might otherwise hope, and there have been challenges in figuring this all out. (We're still largely clueless about the responsibilities of mentors from Googles perspective, for example).
So, thanks to everyone that submitted a proposal.
I'd particularly like to thank those people that submitted a great proposal and were not accepted.
To be quite honest, we were disappointed that Google only selected 6 applicants; we put forward 18 different applications that we thought were all worthy of funding.
So, thanks again to everyone, and most of all, thanks to Google for spurring Wine development!
Cheers,
Jeremy