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On 21:56 Sun 27 Mar , Colleen Josephson wrote: |
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> About how long should a good proposal be? |
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Somewhere in the range of 1500–4000 words is pretty reasonable. |
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Basically, write enough to convince us that you've done sufficient |
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research to understand and design your project, you have a plan to |
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complete it, you're qualified to do the work, and you're enthusiastic |
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about it. But don't write so much that we get tired of reading it. =) |
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Bonus points for addressing things like long-term maintenance, |
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documentation, test suites, and development methodology. |
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The student guide's section on proposal writing [1] is worth reading, |
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although our requirements on sections vary somewhat from them [2]. |
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> Are there any examples of past Gentoo SOC proposals (preferably successful |
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> ones) so to get an idea of what good proposals look like? |
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I know somebody's blogged one, but I couldn't find it with a quick |
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search. |
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1. http://www.booki.cc/gsocstudentguide/_v/1.0/writing-a-proposal/ |
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2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/applying.xml |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Admin, Summer of Code |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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