Publishing student proposal

[matekm]

Hi all!

I am on of the lucky guys that had been accepted to this year GSoC.

For now I have one question. It is ok to publish my proposal (in my
blog for example)?

Cheers
Robert

[neeraj gupta]

i would appreciate it cause that would help people like us whose proposal was not accepted a chance to see what is a good proposal.

Regards
Neeraj Gupta

[Zach Habersang]

I'm a high school student going to college next year. I was accepted and plan on showing my proposal on my blog and writing how I think I got accepted since it is possible that I'm a bit of an underdog being my first year eligible for GSoC. o.o

Zach (z4chh)

[Izidor Matusov]

Please, share the link with us afterwards. It could be interesting reading..

[Eugene Wee]

Hi,

On Apr 21, 7:07 pm, matekm <mat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For now I have one question. It is ok to publish my proposal (in my
> blog for example)?

I do not see why not since I believe that students retain ownership of
their proposals. Consider section 1.4 of the student participant
agreement:
"Project Submission Ownership. At all times during the Google Summer
of Code Program, as between you and Google, you will retain ownership
of whatever interest in the Project Submission's copyright and other
intellectual property rights you possessed prior to becoming a
Student."

The term of art "Project Submission" is defined as "the open source
software program you develop". In my opinion, it is reasonable to
consider the proposal as part of "the open source software program you
develop" (i.e., documentation), and even if it is not, there is
nothing that says that you no longer own it or are forbidden from
publishing it.

In fact, my mentoring organisation requested that my proposal be
posted online for public viewing. I find it hard to conceive of an
open source community that would not want to spread awareness of a
proposal to enhance their codebase.

Regards,
Eugene Wee

[matekm]

Thanks for all for advices:)

If You're interested here You can find my proposal:
http://oiiodev.blogspot.com/2009/04/im-in.html

Cheers
Robert

[Sandro Andrade]

I would suggest to concentrate links to such successful applications
somehow in an official GSoC blog.

Here is mine:
http://liveblue.wordpress.com/projects/#kdevelop

Sandro

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Brazil

[Zhang Sen]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 04:07 -0700, matekm wrote:
> For now I have one question. It is ok to publish my proposal (in my
> blog for example)?

Since everyone is following up, here is mine :)
http://jessezh.blogspot.com/2009/04/im-in.html

Zhang Sen

[R M]

Hey Robert!,
thank you for such nice thing!

Regards,
pritam

[Ajay Kumar]

On Apr 22, 1:41 am, Sandro Andrade <sandro.andr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would suggest to concentrate links to such successful applications
> somehow in an official GSoC blog.

How about putting it all up on your planet-soc.com profile? That is a
public site, which others can see both students/mentors. So put it up
on your profile. Maybe publish it on Google Docs and put up a link.

And answering the primary question of whether to make it public or
not. I'd say, Why not? :-) Its Open Source. Keep it open and
transparent and share :-)

Just my .02 :)



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[Eduardo Robles Elvira]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Ajay Kumar <ajuo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 22, 1:41 am, Sandro Andrade <sandro.andr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would suggest to concentrate links to such successful applications
>> somehow in an official GSoC blog.

All the propossals are already in http://socghop.appspot.com, so as a
suggestion I would appreciate if melange added the possibility to the
students of opening the propossals. As I understand, currently
propossals can be only seen by mentors and students. A simple button
that says "open propossal" or something along the lines would allow
anyone to see the propossal.

Regards
Eduardo Robles Elvira

[Leslie Hawthorn]

Excellent feature request. Please file it here:

http://code.google.com/p/soc/issues

As for publishing your proposals yourself, please go right ahead and do so if you would like. You wrote it, so feel free to share it.

Cheers,
LH
 

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Program Manager - Open Source
Google Inc.

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http://google-opensource.blogspot.com - http://www.hawthornlandings.org