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 === Did your organization participate in past Google Summer of Codes? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. ===
-Yes, during 2011, under the GNU umbrella. The success was a completed project by a very capable student, and the challenges were that Jordi, the mentor for Daniel Kraft, did not know all the answers. Other members of the Octave community were involved in the work in the mailing list and offered advice and help as needed.
+Yes, during 2011 and 2012, under the GNU umbrella. Four students have successfully completed projects for us in the past, all of which is live and in our main source tree. In addition, we have mentored two students through the European's Space Agency's independent Summer of Code In Space.
+The challenges have been about managing very diverse problem domains and finding people who are competent in all of them.  We have not had great trouble keeping students interested, although we've seen lulls in their productive output a few times, which were always thankfully remedied with a little prodding.
 === If your organization has not previously participated in Google Summer of Code, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? ===