Getting Selected — The Night I Couldn't Sleep

If you haven't read my previous post about the pre-GSoC journey the two months of contributing, the early mornings, the proposal drafts I'd suggest starting there. This post picks up right where that one ended: the proposal had been submitted, the deadline had passed, and there was nothing left to do but wait. Waiting, as it turns out, is its own kind of difficult. After the Submission I hit submit at 11:20 PM on March 31st , ten minutes before the deadline. And then, almost immediately, the adr