Re: Student proposal deadline.

No worries at all. Happy to contribute, and I hope to hack some more
this summer.

To next year!

-Ersin

On 4/9/11, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I apologize for the confusion caused by my email. However it was
> intended as a wake up call to flush out people who had been
> procrastinating about their application.
>
> The time shown in the Google Calendar is 12:00 in 24-hour time on
> April 8th, not 12 midnight so I carry some responsibility for this.
>
> Reading through the email discussion on the Google mentors forum there
> appears to be very little sympathy for late applications. The
> arguments are along the lines of the timeline being clear and that the
> vast majority of students had in fact worked very hard to ensure that
> their applications were submitted on time. This in turn allowed them
> to receive feedback from mentors.
>
> In any case we certainly value your contributions Ersin. I have tried
> your patch and have found some problems with crashes. I'm not sure if
> those crashes are generated from your patch or already present in
> trunk. I'll need to investigate some more.
>
> No matter what happens we value your contributions to AbiWord Ersin. I
> hope we can get your patch into trunk without too many more
> modifications and I invite you to continue to work with us to develop
> AbiWord.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Ersin Akinci <ersin.akinci@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> No, rather, midnight April 8th would mean the end of April 8th in
>> common usage here (US) at least. To clarify: if it's 11:59 PM April
>> 8th, the next minute would be called midnight April 8th. But
>> technically, if noon is 12:00 PM, then midnight is 12:00 AM, and 12:00
>> AM April 8th is the beginning of April 8th, not the end...then again,
>> if you look up "midnight" in a few dictionaries, you'll see that it
>> refers to "the transition between night and day", which is a pretty
>> ambiguous thing.
>>
>> So I'm agreeing with you =). Google's site is pretty explicit about
>> it and even has a chart: 11 AM PST, April 8th. However, I was just
>> going by the e-mails on the thread.
>>
>> It's completely my fault, I should have checked on the main site. At
>> any rate, I hope that GSoC has mercy on me...
>>
>> -Ersin
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Saturday 09 April 2011 02:43:33 am Ersin Akinci wrote:
>>>> It seems like the mistake is on me; actually, I think that Martin was
>>>> providing a great heads up by saying that the deadline was at
>>>> midnight rather than the actual deadline, which was in fact 11 AM
>>>> PST. I got confused, however, and thought that this meant midnight
>>>> April 9th, i.e., pitch black outside at the very end of April 8th.
>>>> At least, this is the standard usage of the term "midnight" where I
>>>> am from, but I've looked it up the term and I see that it's
>>>> ambiguous. It refers generally to the transition between night and
>>>> day.
>>>
>>> So, what are you saying, that the term midnight, April 8th, meant: pitch
>>> black outside at the very end of April 7th?
>>>
>>> That is an odd usage to me, also. I guess going by a 24 hour clock (in
>>> C ;-), midnight is 00:00:00 (as opposed to 24:00:00) so it would be the
>>> next day, but I've never encountered a situation where "midnight, April
>>> 8th, meant: pitch black outside at the very end of April 7th".
>>>
>>> I'm just curious, what do most people think? Is this country
>>> specific--I mean maybe US people think my way, and people in some other
>>> countries think differently? (Or maybe it is programming language
>>> specific? ;-)
>>>
>>> How is the IRS deadline for income taxes specified? I know it is (in
>>> general terms) the end of the day on Monday, April 18th, not the end of
>>> the day on Sunday, April 17th.
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm just trying to learn, not start an argument.
>>>
>>> Randy Kramer
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ersin Y. Akinci -- ersinakinci.com
>>
>> What Digital Revolution? -- www.whatdigitalrevolution.com
>> Thinking critically about digital worlds.
>>
>

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Ersin Y. Akinci -- ersinakinci.com
What Digital Revolution? -- www.whatdigitalrevolution.com
Thinking critically about digital worlds.