Re: GSoC application advice for students

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

On 03/31/2012 08:05 PM, Jamison Hope wrote:
> To anyone considering submitting an application to work on Kawa
> for Google Summer of Code:
>
> As one of the mentors, it seemed good to me to share some thoughts with
> you.

What he wrote - thanks for writing this.

> When it comes time to review proposals and choose which to accept, here's
> what's going to happen:
> 1. Google will allocate N slots to the GNU project.
> 2. All of the different projects under the GNU umbrella [1] will fight for
> one or more of those N slots. Note: there are 25 packages listed on the
> GNU SOC ideas page, if I counted correctly; most likely, N will be < 25,
> probably significantly so, and so we'll have to convince GNU folks
> outside of the Kawa community to let us have even one of those slots.

At least that's what happened last year (though there were some
issues then).
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