! important to beginners ! - Before you ask ....
Adam 'foo-script' Rakowski
support please read this post _carefuly_
Following advices can raise your doubts and questions.
0.) Official list of accepted organizations is not available today, so
do not ask which org. would be best for you. We do not know you,
either your skills and preferences. Who could know which organization
is best for you? Only you!
00.) Even if there were such list, we also could not help you. Spend 2
or 3 (yes... at least 2 days) to find out something about org. whose
participated last year. Check whether they _plan_ to participate this
year. Some orgs delared it.
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1.) Read program FAQ: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs
There is an answer to _over_ 70% questions you still ask! Read
carefully. It can take over an hour, or two. Mention that! Jot down
any questions.
2.) Watch Philip Johnson's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBRRR0BQyz0
Think if this video answered to your questions
3.) PLEASE, read this pseudo-howto:
http://www.slideshare.net/felipecerda/i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do
This presentation isn't full of optymism and positive energy, but it
describes general condition you _should_ agree.
Please, do not write Sir/Madam.
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5.) During GSoC Leslie, participants and to-be participants created
some stuff about programme. Some of them are not in English. There's a
chance you will find docs in your mother tongue. See:
http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/LocalizedResources
6.) Keep your knowledge up-to-date. Visit:
- wiki http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/w/list
- programme webpage http://socghop.appspot.com/
- and this mail list (almost) everyday
Be up-to-date!
7.) Leslie's blog is here: http://www.hawthornlandings.org
Don't forget visit this page.
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Still have questions?
8.) If any of your question has no answer, then ask, but:
- make sure there is no answer to this question on ANY mentioned
webpage
- search the mail list for your question. "Search" button is
really important
9.) Still not found? Hmm...
10.) Now you can be sure your question will be recognized as fresh and
noone will answer you "RTFM". Answer will come shortly!
If I forgot to mention something, reply to this post.
Adam 'foo-script' Rakowski
Adi
example if I have some 10-15 ideas, lets say 4-5 ideas for some
organization and another 4-5 some other and so on and I think that all
of them deserves atleast one look. What should I do? should I propose
all of them or pick some of my favorites?
Also I want to ask that there are some organizations that belong to
same domain (eg. drupal, joomla and geeklog are CMS) can I propose
same idea to all these organizations?
On Mar 2, 4:52 am, "Adam 'foo-script' Rakowski" <foo-scr...@o2.pl>
wrote:
> If you would like to ask anything, or need any kind of (GSoC) help/
> support please read this post _carefuly_
>
> Following advices can raise your doubts and questions.
>
> 0.) Official list of accepted organizations is not available today, so
> do not ask which org. would be best for you. We do not know you,
> either your skills and preferences. Who could know which organization
> is best for you? Only you!
>
> 00.) Even if there were such list, we also could not help you. Spend 2
> or 3 (yes... at least 2 days) to find out something about org. whose
> participated last year. Check whether they _plan_ to participate this
> year. Some orgs delared it.
>
> ------------------------
>
> 1.) Read program FAQ:http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010...
> There is an answer to _over_ 70% questions you still ask! Read
> carefully. It can take over an hour, or two. Mention that! Jot down
> any questions.
>
> 2.) Watch Philip Johnson's video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBRRR0BQyz0
> Think if this video answered to your questions
>
> 3.) PLEASE, read this pseudo-howto:http://www.slideshare.net/felipecerda/i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat...
> This presentation isn't full of optymism and positive energy, but it
> describes general condition you _should_ agree.
>
> Please, do not write Sir/Madam.
>
> ------------------------
>
> 5.) During GSoC Leslie, participants and to-be participants created
> some stuff about programme. Some of them are not in English. There's a
> chance you will find docs in your mother tongue. See:http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/LocalizedResources
>
> 6.) Keep your knowledge up-to-date. Visit:
> - wiki http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/w/list
> - programme webpagehttp://socghop.appspot.com/
Dirk Haun
> If I propose too many projects ideas, will it be frowned upon? For
> example if I have some 10-15 ideas, lets say 4-5 ideas for some
> organization and another 4-5 some other and so on and I think that all
> of them deserves atleast one look. What should I do? should I propose
> all of them or pick some of my favorites?
My hunch is: If you have that many ideas for a particular project,
chances are that they already had some of them, too. So I would try to
find out if those ideas haven't been discussed before (and discarded).
Or maybe some of the things you're proposing are already available
through some add-on (module, plugin, etc.).
I wouldn't worry about the amount of ideas, but about their quality or
importance for the project.
> Also I want to ask that there are some organizations that belong to
> same domain (eg. drupal, joomla and geeklog are CMS) can I propose
> same idea to all these organizations?
Speaking as a member of one of those orgs: We wouldn't mind.
Anthony Sorace
Speaking for how our org looks at applications, there's nothing about
having lots of applications that would be frowned upon in any way. But
it's not going to help on its own, either. Quality is vastly more
important than quantity. Nobody's likely to be impressed with a
student who submits a dozen B-grade applications if we have a few A-
grade ones to compete against it.
In short: concentrate on getting a top-notch application first. If you
want to then submit multiple top-notch applications, great, but never
sacrifice quality for quantity.
Like Dirk's answer, we'd have no problem with a student submitting the
same application to two orgs. We only evaluate against our own set of
applications.
Anthony Sorace
Strand 1
Adam 'foo-script' Rakowski
participant could submit up to 20 applications.
I experienced that writing one _good_ app can take really very much
time. Last year Blender shown sample application they would like to
get. I am sure it's still online.
On the other hand remember orgs. often publish a kind of apllication
template. If you send one app. to many orgs. they will see that
something is wrong with your app.
Here http://delicious.com/gsoc2009/ you can find a summary of
organizations whose participated last year: languages & technologies
they use, area of interests etc.. Due to Anthony, select up to 2, 3
ideas you would really like to work on, make sure you know proper
languages they use, then write the applications, but don't send same
to each org. I mind it would not be appreciated.
AR