"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Google accepted our application to GSoC '07. Thanks to everyone > who helped with reviewing the application, and most of of all thanks > to our volunteer mentors! So I've been doing some more research on the GSoC process, based on what other organizations have written about their own experiences last year. One thing that came up frequently was many organizations found having a student application template useful, as it helped the student and the mentors to better focus their proposal and their review. This may be important to us, as there were 6,338 applications last year: http://code.google.com/soc/GSoC2006Statistics.pdf Boost for example received some 160 or so applications (see page 3). We aren't as big or as popular as Boost is, so I don't expect to receive that many, but I would also like to hope that we will get more than 10 applications. ;-) One of the better (in my opinion anyway) templates appears to be the NetBSD one: http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-application.xml We have not yet defined a template for student applications, but I'm thinking we may want to at least draft one up and offer it as an option for students to follow. Interesting side note: The largest compliant from the '06 Apache Software Foundation mentors was that the students were not given committer access to Subversion. They felt this made it difficult for the students to contribute. Now if only there was a really cool distributed version control system... ;-) -- Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html