[Openvas-devel] OpenVAS not accepted for GSoC 2010 program

[Tim Brown]

On Tuesday 23 March 2010 07:37:39 Vlatko Kosturjak wrote:
> Felix Wolfsteller wrote:
> > To answer the "why", my guess is that they stick with projects that did
> > well in the past and try to offer students a wide range of possible
> > tasks, therefore looking at the preliminary ideas list of each student.
> > 
> > Anyway, marvelling why who chose what is a bit a waste of time, imho. We
> > didnt make it, other great project that participate since years did make
> > it.
> > 
> > Next year.
> 
> On the contrary. We should take a look at our application and those who
> pass to see what's different. We should see what we have to improve in
> order to get approved. If applications are almost the same, I guess we
> have to work on marketing and getting someone in Google to use OpenVAS :)

Agreed.  If we don't work out why Google keep rejecting us then there is 
little point continuing to apply.  We've had two cracks now with different co-
ordinators (myself, Felix and Vlatko) without success so we're obviously doing 
something wrong.  If it's as simple as nmap vs OpenVAS then considering the 
fact that nmap already has Google support then we're on to a loser.  Either 
way, I'd like to run the development competition again since that was quite 
successful in catching peoples attention.

Cheers,
Tim
-- 
Tim Brown
<mailto:timb at openvas.org>
<http://www.openvas.org/>
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