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.
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!
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.
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!