Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:09:35 +0100, Aik-Siong Koh wrote:
>> My experience with the The Squeak Project
>> GSOC 2008 was excellent and I believe the open source smalltalk community
>> has benefited a lot from his efforts.
> 
> Benefited, really? To the best of [available] knowledge, someone took 
> Google's money from 2007 and 2008 and run away. Not _really_ a benefit 
> for the community.

As far as I know the project Aik-Siong Koh was mentoring is the only one 
that is currently shipping (in Cobalt). And it is most definitely of 
great value to its community.

Your question may be worthwhile asking, but Aik-Siong Koh is probably 
not the person to direct it to. You might want to ask the students who 
took the money and didn't deliver. Or rather, their mentors. The list of 
accepted projects and the associated mentors is probably still available 
somewhere.

BTW, I find this line of questioning completely irrelevant for the 
position we are talking about which is strictly administrative. 
Aik-Siong Koh has been a mentor last year, involved in the entire 
process and short of actually running the process that is as much 
qualification as anyone can ask for.

Cheers,
   - Andreas