GSoC 2017: accepted proposals

Today the official selection of GSoC proposals has taken place, and I’m proud to announce that FreeCAD got 4 slots assigned! I welcome the 4 student here in our community and wish a fruitful time to everyone, congratulations!

Also, sorry if your proposals has not been accepted. There have been more than 4 good ones, but due to limited slots, mentors and sometimes limited expertise on our side we needed to take a compromise. I hope you will all stay around in our community and become part of this great experiance, even if not backed by GSoC.

Here are the accepted proposals:

Kurt Kremitzki - Part Design Workbench Refinement

Markus Hovorka - Elmer Integration

Amritpal Singh - Rebar Addon for FreeCAD

Ajinkya Dahale Topological Naming in FreeCAD

Now one month community bonding is coming up, and I hope you all become active here in the forum or the other channels. Use the time to get into the details, your mentors will be very happy to guide you through!

Wow! Great News. Congrats to all involved. Exciting times for FreeCAD.

Oh! Toponaming accepted!! Bye bye, assembly :stuck_out_tongue:

Oddly I received an email from gsoc saying my proposal was not accepted. Something needs to be resolved here.

I don’t see how toponaming replaces assembly. If anything it shouls assist assembly, right?

It means I will most likely stop coding for assembly for the duration of GSoC.

Oh, ok. Makes me feel bad (if) I’m selected.

Don’t worry about that.

jnxd said google tells him that his proposal wasn’t accepted.



WTF is going on?

OK, just got this copy email from Google:

Hello Ajinkya Dahale,



We apologize for the earlier rejection email you received, there was a glitch that affected a handful of students and sent out a rejection email when in fact you have been accepted into GSoC 2017! Congratulations! You can see your project on the GSoC projects page. Below is the email that you should have received a few hours ago. Again, we apologize for the confusion.

So it was just a glitch :stuck_out_tongue:

I just got a notification from following GSoC https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6748039212433408

Aye. I am aboard too!

Congratulations to all students, mentors, and to FreeCAD!!!

Congratulations to you and to everyone else who was accepted! It’s pretty great, assuming ~40 hr workweeks Google is financing almost 2000 student-developer-hours of effort towards FreeCAD this summer!

I can’t imagine how it must have felt to see both an acceptance and rejection letter! :astonished:

Congrats guys, I’m amazed and ecstatic that 4 projects were accepted. Wow! :slight_smile:

Do google pay the students? or just organise things for them with with the reward being the QDOS of having your project pass.

Congratulations to you too and to Amritpal and Markus!

congratulation to all involved and to the selected contributers. Although I can’t participate I will try to get my proposal done too.

Thanking you,

Congratulations to all and now we have a great summer. :slight_smile:

Regards,

Congrats to all the accepted. Hopefully those not accepted will stick around here. :smiley:

v0.17 is going to be a very big step forward when released!! :wink: