From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: GSoC '07 - Accepted! Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20070316005026.GF29547@spearce.org> References: <20070315161143.GA29547@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 16 01:50:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HS0eQ-00012A-GN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:50:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933978AbXCPAub (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933980AbXCPAub (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:31 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:58340 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933978AbXCPAua (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:30 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HS0e9-0004QD-MI for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:17 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 028C020FBAE; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:26 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070315161143.GA29547@spearce.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Shawn O. Pearce" wrote: > Google accepted our application to GSoC '07. Thanks to everyone > who helped with reviewing the application, and most of of all thanks > to our volunteer mentors! So I've been doing some more research on the GSoC process, based on what other organizations have written about their own experiences last year. One thing that came up frequently was many organizations found having a student application template useful, as it helped the student and the mentors to better focus their proposal and their review. This may be important to us, as there were 6,338 applications last year: http://code.google.com/soc/GSoC2006Statistics.pdf Boost for example received some 160 or so applications (see page 3). We aren't as big or as popular as Boost is, so I don't expect to receive that many, but I would also like to hope that we will get more than 10 applications. ;-) One of the better (in my opinion anyway) templates appears to be the NetBSD one: http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-application.xml We have not yet defined a template for student applications, but I'm thinking we may want to at least draft one up and offer it as an option for students to follow. Interesting side note: The largest compliant from the '06 Apache Software Foundation mentors was that the students were not given committer access to Subversion. They felt this made it difficult for the students to contribute. Now if only there was a really cool distributed version control system... ;-) -- Shawn.