Dear students,
15th March is when Google would start accepting proposals from students for Google Summer of Code '2016. By now, all of you who are interested to work on any of our project ideas should have started working on your proposals.
If you are wondering what should you include in your proposal, have a look at this page - we have put some info that we'd particularly like to see in it.
How to request a review for draft proposals?
Once you have a draft proposal ready, you can request a review. Please upload your draft proposal (word document) to Google drive and post the link in this thread. Make sure that your draft proposal is public so that all the mentors can access it. You may include UI mockups in your proposals if you wish or upload them separately and give a link in your proposal.
Draft proposals not posted on this thread may not be reviewed. So please make sure you post them here.
What to expect in the review?
Don't expect very long essay style reviews, we would have a look at your proposal to see if you have missed any important parts that we may like to see. We would also suggest any changes to your proposed timelines and deliverables. Mentors would provide the comments to you personally through email.
We would be spending some time to read the proposals, so it make take us some time to email you the feedback, please be patient during this time. If you do not get our feedback by 17th March, please contact me directly.
Where to submit the final proposal?
After including suggestions / comments from our review, you can modify your proposal as necessary. There is no need to ask for a re-review, we will not re-review, rather we would review new proposals which haven't got a chance yet.
If you fail to submit the final proposal to Google, there is absolutely no way that you can get selected for this GSoC this year.. even if we'd want to select you!
Additional Information
As much as we'd like to provide a review for all the students who request it - we may not be able to do so. So we request all the students to post their draft proposals by 12th March at the latest. If you post them after 12th March - we may not be able to provide comments/ review - unless we find extra time and have finished all the pending reviews. It's OK to submit a proposal to Google without our review if you have confidence and understood what we need from you, however we recommend that you get your draft proposals reviewed if you are ready early.
As you may have already seen the activity in the group - we have lot of students interested in our projects. I personally get a lot of emails from students and am usually busy responding to them the best I can. So we expect a lot of proposals to be submitted for GSoC. From the proposals submitted to Google, we would be selecting the ones we like the best. How many projects and students we can select - depends on how many slots we receive from Google.
All the best to everyone!
PS: Any other posts to this thread, except links to draft proposals would have to be deleted. Discussions pertaining to projects should not happen in this thread.