I applied with http://www.use-the-tree.com. It's okay with me to not have been interviewed via Skype and not receive funding.
Also the eMail from Greg (on June 5th) was nice and well written:
Hey,
Thanks a lot for applying to the Open Source Retreat. Unfortunately,
we aren't able to accept your project. We ended up with about 120
applications, and ultimately only had 2 available slots, which meant
we had to turn away a lot of projects that we would have loved to
sponsor. We'll be announcing our selectees soon; watch our Twitter
feed (https://twitter.com/stripe) for details.
We're treating the retreat as an experiment, but the strong interest
we've seen makes it likely we'll do something like it again (and we
hope you'll apply if/when we do). In any case, we expect we'll learn a
lot from this run and hopefully have lessons to share back with the
community. We've also had a number of companies express interest in
doing something similar, so hopefully other similar opportunities will
arise soon.
Also the eMail from Greg (on June 5th) was nice and well written:
Hey,
Thanks a lot for applying to the Open Source Retreat. Unfortunately, we aren't able to accept your project. We ended up with about 120 applications, and ultimately only had 2 available slots, which meant we had to turn away a lot of projects that we would have loved to sponsor. We'll be announcing our selectees soon; watch our Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/stripe) for details.
We're treating the retreat as an experiment, but the strong interest we've seen makes it likely we'll do something like it again (and we hope you'll apply if/when we do). In any case, we expect we'll learn a lot from this run and hopefully have lessons to share back with the community. We've also had a number of companies express interest in doing something similar, so hopefully other similar opportunities will arise soon.
- gdb