I've added examples for proposals from last year's successful projects to the GSoC pages, so potential students should have a look at those if they want to apply.
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GSoC MB On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:08:27AM +0200, Martin Braun (CEL) wrote: > Now that emails have started coming in regarding GSoC, it seems like a > good time to go over how the process works. This will be a lot of text, > but if you're interested in GSoC, please read. > > This mailing list is the correct place to discuss GSoC. If you're writing > about GSoC, *don't* be ambiguous, tell us if you want to participate as a > student, as a mentor, if you have an idea, etc. > General questions about deadlines etc. are all answered in great detail > on the GSoC main page[0]. > > > For students who want to participate > ==================================== > > That's fantastic! > > If one of the ideas on the ideas page[1] sounds like something you want > to work on, please contact the mentor associated with that specific > idea. In order to participate, you will eventually have to write a > proposal on what you plan to do for the 3 months, so you *must* discuss > this with your potential mentor. A good proposal is necessary for > participating, so you will have put some research into the subject at > hand. > Of course, the Google FAQ covers proposals[2]. > > A word on the 802.11 project: This is definitely the most > research-intensive, because there's so much stuff already out there: In > GNU Radio-land alone, there's the Innsbruck's guys implementation, all > the new OFDM code in master and next etc. Outside of GNU Radio, there's > also a lot of code available. So you'll be going over a lot of stuff to > write your proposal. > > If you have your own idea for a project, that's OK, too. Remember it > should be something that can be done in 3 months full-time coding > (although starting small and adding stretch goals is a good way to > achieve this). Tell us on the mailing list about it. If it's a good > project, and you're a dedicated student, we *will* find a mentor. > The more details, the better. > > > If you want to be a mentor > ========================== > > That's more tricky than it sounds (there's a reason we started > collecting ideas and requesting mentors months ago). I've already gotten > some weird (possibly bogus) mentor requests. There's a couple of things > we need to make sure of: An extreme example is the case where mentor and > student sign up together to rake in the $$$, but there's no code at the > end. Currently, we know all the mentors personally and we know they > would fail students if they don't deliver, and otherwise coach them > well. > If you know any developers, it's probably best to contact them directly. > > > > [0] http://www.google-melange.com/ > [1] http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GSoC > [2] > https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page#5._What_should_a_student_proposal_look > > -- > Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) > Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) > > Dipl.-Ing. Martin Braun > Research Associate > > Kaiserstraße 12 > Building 05.01 > 76131 Karlsruhe > > Phone: +49 721 608-43790 > Fax: +49 721 608-46071 > www.cel.kit.edu > > KIT -- University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and > National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Dipl.-Ing. Martin Braun Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-43790 Fax: +49 721 608-46071 www.cel.kit.edu KIT -- University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association
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