From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: GSoC 2016: application period ongoing, a few advices Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:26:29 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git To: Stefan Beller , Jeff King , larsxschneider , Johannes Schindelin , "Junio C. Hamano" , Edward Thomson , Christian Couder , saurabhsuniljain@gmail.com, pranit.bauva@gmail.com, mehul.jain2029@gmail.com, tigerkid001@gmail.com, huiyiqun@gmail.com, senorsen.zhang@gmail.com, dpdineshp2@gmail.com, sauravsachidanand@gmail.com, lists@moritzneeb.de X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 19 13:26:51 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ahFxy-00062V-NQ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:26:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754557AbcCSM0q (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2016 08:26:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:40465 "EHLO mx1.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753980AbcCSM0p (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2016 08:26:45 -0400 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by mx1.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u2JCQT1S009514 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:26:29 +0100 Received: from anie (anie.imag.fr [129.88.7.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u2JCQTUV032298; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:26:29 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (mx1.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:26:30 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: u2JCQT1S009514 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1458995190.69204@eLKrxjS23MH1/+wHn7ypzQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Recipients of this email: the Git list, mentors and admins (I tried to use the address you normally use, or the one on the GSoC site. Let me know if I shall use another one), and students who showed interest in GSoC (I may have missed some ...). Bcc-ed is a student who applied via the web interface but did not disclose his email publicly yet. As a reminder, the GSoC students application period has started (since March 14, deadline = March 25th = soon). Up to now, we have 2 ongoing applications (1 final PDF and one draft). I didn't see much discussion about students proposals, and I'm a bit worried about it. My main advice to students: make sure your applications are seen and reviewed by as many people as possible, and give them time to send feedback. A few important things to know: * Anything submitted on https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ is visible only to people invited there. Don't hesitate to discuss on-list to get feedback from other people (and don't hesitate to Cc people that may be interested, not everybody reads the whole list). * PDF final proposals are visible to mentors only after the deadline. Nobody can comment on it before. Right now there's a final proposal without a draft, I suspect I'd have a lot of comments to make on it given the abstract, but I can't because I can't read the text. * OTOH, drafts are meant to be read and commented before the deadline. The new site suggests using a google doc that can be edited, commented, ... and the same link can be posted to the list. To potential mentors: please log in on the GSoC website and keep an eye on the list of proposals. Note that unlike the old system, comments we add there are only for mentors & admins, not seen by students. Regards, -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/