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internetnews.com: Rough Start For Google’s Summer of Code ’06

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 24, 2006

“They waited in IRC. They waited by their inboxes. They waited
for Google to accept them.

“And nearly 1,800 applicants of Google’s Summer of Code 2006
finally got word their projects were accepted. Then came the rude
awakening.

“‘We sent about 1,800 e-mails that said that people were
accepted who in fact were not,’ Google’s Open Source Program
Manager Chris DiBona wrote in a mailing list posting…”

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