GSoC 2010. The Experience
2010 has been the first time we have tried to apply to GSoC. It was a nice effort finally not successful, but there are things we can learn and use in next year application. This list include also advices kindly suggested by Google.
GSoC application was done by few people in few time. A good application requires many people involvement and time to mature our proposals.
The ideas list was not very well fleshed out. Especially for organizations that have not participated previously, it is preferred to see:
links to further documentation in each idea.
contact information for a potential mentor.
links to source code for students to check out, etc.
A good job was done of classifying each idea according to difficulty, but all of our ideas were either medium or difficult, which can be a barrier to GSoC students who do not already have knowledge of U++.
It is recommended beefing up our ideas list and to look for ways to take the experience of onboard new contributors to include it in next year GSoC application.
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