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From: VIGNESH PRABHU <stove311...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Subject: [Fsmk-discuss] Fwd: Preparations for GSoC
To: Discussions related to Free Software and the Movement <
fsmk-disc...@lists.fsmk.in>
Hi friends,
>
> For those of you who don't know about Google Summer of Code, its a
> summer internship programme by Google which lets you work on various
> open source software. Although the pay for 3 months of work is huge
> (5000 USD), the main incentive is to become a part of the free
> software community and getting famous work your work :-)
>
> So if you want to participate, it is time to get going. You need to
> choose a project you want to work under, and a feature that you want
> to work on. You may apply for multiple projects, but you will be
> selected for just one. It is best to concentrate on 2-3 projects at
> the most, otherwise the quality of the project proposal (this is your
> selection criteria) generally goes down.
>
> To get involved with a project, start by contributing patches to the
> project, maybe fixes to little bugs. You will find the link to a
> project's bugs usually on its website.
By the way, those looking for an overview of what kind of ideas get
done in GSoC, check these links
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas
http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas
http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas
http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2011/Ideas
http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Hacking:GSoC/2011/Ideas
And most importantly, the accepted projects
http://http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011
>
> When the time comes, you will have to select a project topic from the
> ideas suggested by your project, or propose your own. But there is
> still ample time for that. For now, I'd like everyone to get involved
> into contributing to open source projects of their choice.
>
> p.s. If you have any problems/queries, please mail to this list
> instead of mailing me personally. This way, more people can see your
> problem and help you
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