This year, let’s try something different! I posted a rough draft of our 
organization application on the Gentoo wiki [1], in hopes that we can all 
work together to improve it over the next week. Applications are due 
starting March 9, and earlier is better. Here’s a list of questions that 
you can help answer:

    * Why is your group applying to participate? What do you hope to 
      gain by participating?

    * What criteria do you use to select the members of your group? 
      Please be as specific as possible.

    * Has your group participated previously? If so, please summarize 
      your involvement and any past successes and failures.

    * What questions/requests do we want in our application template for 
      students, in addition to the GSoC application?

    * What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

    * What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?

    * What steps will you take to encourage contributors to interact 
      with your community before, during, and after the program?

    * What will you do to ensure that your accepted contributors stick 
      with the project after the program concludes?

Go to the wiki [1], and help Gentoo’s application rock!


1. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_application

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com