Approaching organizations for own project

[Erwin Riedmann]

Dear all,

I have a question regarding how to approach an organization. I would like to apply for the GSoC with my own project and was able to identify four organizations on the list  reasonably close to my project idea. Should I go ahead and ask them if they could imagine mentoring the project I will be proposing? Should I do this informally, that is without a full project outline and a cv? Thanks for your advice!

Regards,
Erwin

[Kevin Smith]

I would chat to them informally first. You have a significant chance
of getting unsolicited applications ignored.

/K

[Christian Schaller]

Agreed, getting hold of the project leaders on IRC or by email first
will make your chances of
success a lot higher. And as always write a good application with a
timeline and deliverables, that is one of our biggest
evaluation criteria in the GStreamer project, if a student hasn't
bothered making a good application we assume he/she will probably not
do a good project, but instead try to get through on minimal effort,
as thus we are not interested in spending mentor time on such a
project. In fact I think we are more concerned about the quality of
the project proposal than the 'usefulness' of the proposal to the
project itself.

Christian

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