Hi All, It is great to see lot of GSoC proposals coming up for Airavata. More proposals -> more competitive proposal acceptance. This year Airavata PMC will try to evaluate proposals regarding some guidelines, having a good comprehensive proposal with doable milestone is a best way to start. Evaluation depends not only on how good your proposal is but also how much you have step ped in that direction. For an example, understanding Airavata architecture is one major step for those who will work with Airavata server side or/and some PoC level implementation would help you to show us how much you are capable of complet ing the task that you are proposing with your GSoC proposals. This time Apache GSoC is more competitive hence use your time wisely from right now to 22nd April(Accepted student proposals announced date). I think this is fair decision as whole purpose of GSoC is for students to learn something new and contribute to the Open Source.
As Airavata PMC we would like to get a GSoC slot for every student, but in reality we are part of Apach e projects pool so l et's show your talent and try to reserve a GSoC slot with Apache this time. Good luck with your GSoC 2016, Thanks, Shameera (on behalf of Airavata PMC). -- Shameera Rathnayaka
