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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.

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

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

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

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.

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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

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