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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: GSoC '07 - Accepted!
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:52:22 -0400
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> 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...
...
> 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.

Besides giving the lesson that I cannot spell (or type), I've put
together a possible set of points that I think would help students to
write better proposals, and will help us as mentors to review them:

  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2007Template

-- 
Shawn.