Proposal Submission Editior, too basic.

[Vettukal Vincent Mathew]

 First of all congrats to GSoC team for getting record number of proposal this year( 6,685 student proposals)  .While submitting my proposal, I and some others found that format of proposal getting totally messed up, when copy pasting it from Google Docs. I found it difficult to resize the images in the Proposal Editor. The Edit box is also too small to write the whole proposal there and even difficult to edit and check the contents. 

 I would request that if it is not technically very difficult then please integrate the proposal form with Google Docs for next year and that would provide some more functionality to the editor. 

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Cheers

Vettukal

[Iurie]

or even to be able to upload the document with the proposal

Vettukal

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[Chris DiBona]

If we did such a thing, I'd be tempted to require it be submitted in hand crafted LaTeX

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[Aamir Khan]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Vettukal Vincent Mathew <vett...@gmail.com> wrote:

 First of all congrats to GSoC team for getting record number of proposal this year( 6,685 student proposals)  .While submitting my proposal, I and some others found that format of proposal getting totally messed up, when copy pasting it from Google Docs. I found it difficult to resize the images in the Proposal Editor. The Edit box is also too small to write the whole proposal there and even difficult to edit and check the contents. 

 I would request that if it is not technically very difficult then please integrate the proposal form with Google Docs for next year and that would provide some more functionality to the editor. 

 

+1 for integration with Google docs.. 

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Vettukal

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[Vance Turnewitsch]

Isn't it possible to link to your Google Doc through the box that allowed linking for more information on one's proposal?

[shh]

For last year and this year application, I typed into Google Doc then I copy and paste the whole proposal into the proposal box and I do not really have much problem with it. As for writing the whole proposal inside the edit box is actually not a good idea because you are only allow to submit and you cannot save. 

[Carsten Gutwenger]

Having the possibility to save would really be great. As an org admin of this year, I know that we received many Updated Proposal messages, simply due to editing / formatting the proposal. So adding this functionality would also make org admin / mentors's lives easier!

Regards,

Carsten

[jaseem abid]

On Sunday, 8 April 2012 02:30:38 UTC+5:30, Chris DiBona wrote:

If we did such a thing, I'd be tempted to require it be submitted in hand crafted LaTeX

Apparently that would have been better. The wiki lacked flexibility and its quite hard to get the whole thing look good. Though, I would prefer a standard markdown over LaTex.