[vander_elst]

In general it seems that organizations that are accepted to the GSoC program are no-profit like associations, that develop a product for the sake of developing it, probably there are also exceptions.

Anyway, it seems that qdrant is more a for-profit organization. So maybe that was the one of the criteria that was taken into account to exclude it?

My understanding might be wrong/incomplete, please let me know if that's not the case.

[andre-z]

This is not a reason. We participated successfully last year and even hired one of the guys afterward.

[dannyw]

They tend to rotate organisations. It’s not necessarily you.

[andre-z]

Yes. This makes sense. There is no criticism of Google at all. We just want to continue supporting contributors.

[ayewo]

No mention of how much you will be paying contributors for the different tasks in your blog post.

You should include a note in the blog post or at least add it to Notion, beneath the time estimates.

[refulgentis]

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[andre-z]

Did you look a bit deeper? Qdrant is written in Rust from scratch. The project is over three years old and started long before the "gold rush." :) Run it wherever you want, in your data center, locally, with no limitations. https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-helm