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Google Summer of Code 2016 is starting. |
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If you are a student please be patient. Your time will come soon, at which |
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point we'll be able to answer all your questions. In this initial phase the |
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audience is project mentors. Note that you do not need to be a Gentoo |
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developer to be a mentor. |
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While we are finalizing the application, we need all of you to submit your |
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project ideas before the end of next week (February 19th). To do so you |
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should go to [1] and follow the instructions in the "Ideas" section. If you |
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proposed an idea last year and would like to propose it again for this |
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year, you can look it up at [2] and add it to [1]. Or you can just tell us |
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and we will do it for you. Don't hesitate to add an idea even it isn't |
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totally fleshed out; we will help you fill in the blanks. A project |
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represents 3 months of full-time work for a student. A good rule of thumb |
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is that it should take you between 2 and 4 weeks to complete depending on |
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how expert you are in the field. You can also have a look at [2] for |
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examples. |
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If you would like to be a mentor for this year please tell us sooner rather |
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than later. You can be a mentor following up with students while they're |
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working on their project, or you can be an expert-mentor in a specific |
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field who will be called in to advise on an as-needed basis (or maybe |
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never). We will also need people to help us review project proposals. In |
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case you can help in any capacity don't hesitate to contact us. GSoC is |
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seriously fun! |
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If you want to reach us or have any questions about any of the above, the |
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easiest way is to ping Calchan or rafaelmartins in the #gentoo-soc channel |
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on Freenode. |
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Thanks, |
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Calchan. |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/Ideas |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2015/Ideas |