130 projects dropped from google summer of code

AerospaceResearch.Net
Amahi
Apertium
appleseed
Arches Project
Association Tatoeba
Battle for Wesnoth
Benetech
Bio4j
BioJavaScript
Biomedical Informatics, Emory University
Blender Foundation
Bookie
Boost C++ Libraries
BRL-CAD
Buildroot
BumbleBee Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (BBAUV)
Catrobat (formerly Catroid Project)
Centre for Computational Medicine, SickKids Research Institute
Ceph
Checkstyle
CodeCombat
CodeMirror
Computational Science and Engineering at TU Wien
coreboot
Crypto Stick
Crystal Space
Dr. Memory
Flowgrammable
Freenet Project Inc
Freifunk
Frenetic
Gambit: Software Tools for Game Theory
Ganglia
Gentoo Foundation
GNOME
GNSS-SDR
GNU Octave
GNU Project
GNU Radio
Grameen Foundation - MOTECH
Groovy Community
Haiku
Health Information Systems Programme
HelenOS group at Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems, Charles University in Prague
illumos
Inclusive Design Institute
Inkscape
International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
Italian Mars Society
JBoss Community
Jitsi
jMonkeyEngine
Joomla!
KolibriOS Project Team
Laboratory for Cosmological Data Mining
LEAP Encryption Access Project
LibreOffice
Linaro
Linux Trace Toolkit next generation project (LTTng)
lmonade: scientific software distribution
LyX – The Document Processor
Measurement Lab (M-Lab)
Melange
Mifos Initiative
Mixxx DJ Software
mlpack: scalable C++ machine learning library
Monkey Project
Mozilla
MuseScore
National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB)
Netfilter Project
NetSurf
Nmap Security Scanner
OGDF - Open Graph Drawing Framework
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
Open Education Resource Foundation
Open Lighting Project
Open Motion Planning Library
openSUSE
OSv
oVirt
OWASP Foundation
phpBB Forum Software
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plone Foundation
Point Cloud Library (PCL)
PRISM Model Checker
Project Tox
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
Python Software Foundation
QEMU
R Project for Statistical Computing
Raxa
RouteFlow
RTEMS Project
Sahana Software Foundation
Scaffold Hunter
ScummVM
Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox
Sigmah
Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.
Steel Bank Common Lisp
Stratosphere Project
Sugar Labs
SuperTuxKart
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
SymPy
SyncDiff(erent)
The CGAL Project
The Julia Language
The Linux Foundation
The OpenStack Foundation
The Perl Foundation
The Privly Foundation
The STE||AR Group
The syslog-ng project
The Tor Project and EFF
The Wiselib
ThinkUp
TimVideos.us
Twitter
TYPO3 Association
Visualization Toolkit (VTK)
Wikimedia
WordPress
WorldForge
WSO2
wxWidgets
X.Org Foundation
Xapian Search Engine Library
Xen Project

Not all the projects on >>1's list were dropped. For example, QEMU is still listed on Google's list at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015 . Tor isn't there though, so that's probably truly gone.

Haskell got accepted. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/report/1 One of the ideas is `Improve performance of native code'. Finally, we may see a Hello World less than a megabyte in size. In top priorities catagory, they have plans for a Seeples to Haskell converter. I'd hate to be that student.

MIT Media Lab, a world leader in mixing gender studies with technology boast The Abelson himself as a mentor. That's right, "[p]otentially Jose Dominguez and/or Hal Abelson", is sponsoring brain-busting challenges like "Brief explanation: Implement an undo option for the blocks editor. This would be connected to undo in the designer.¶Expected results: A new option potentially in the Project menu and also working as a shortcut (ctrl + z || cmd + z) that allows to undo the latest actions in the blocks editor. Note this will be connected with undo in the Designer too." Good job, Abelson, you've done well for yourself.

In Nigger News, the Africa Soil Information Service was accepted. With the $500 that the org gets, they will be able to buy most of Africa.

There is a project called IP-over-P2P, which I thought was I2P, but is absolutely not and sounds like one of /g/'s bright ideas. It's not written in Java like I2P is, so it has the advantage of not being hosted on a leaky sewer of a platform owned by a company who's very name taunts you with the knowledge that they know everything about you.

There's LowRISC, which wants a RISC and plans for students to make it some Javascript design tools for netlists, and a port of Icarus Verilog compiler(?) to Javascript.

Perhaps most importantly, Tox is getting some Google labor. Interestingly enough, of the projects I randomly looked at, they seem to be one of the few to have both put thought into it and not just given wildly ambitious ideas that will probably never work and will never be done by a few students over a summer in any case.