Well, I can only speak about my experience. The page https://community.kde.org/GSoC is good, and I think that is a good start. When I submitted my proposal las year at Umbrello, I did start to get to know Umbrello code before it. And get to know the code is, for me, a required step to get accepted on that project, otherwise when GSoC starts the student may lose valuable time on that. Also, search for a project and a mentor is a good step too. I know that all of GSoC students do a review about the Community and that the Community can access it, however, maybe we can do a pool on #kde-gsoc about it, with a deep questioning about all the experience involving GSoC, of former students and the ones that have interesting to apply for 2017. That can help us to define a better standards to follow. Well, that is just my ideas... I'm open to discussing it.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Valorie Zimmerman < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Valorie Zimmerman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've just finished preparing the new Ideas page for 2017: > > https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/Ideas > > > > It is basically the same as every other year, and has no previous > > ideas on it. If you or your project plan to present a former idea > > again, click on the 2016 Ideas link, and copy/paste it into the 2017 > > page as soon as possible. > > > > Of course, new ideas are welcome as well, as long as there are mentors > > available. We'll remove ideas with no mentor listed. Please ensure > > that there is contact information for each mentor. > > Sorry for replying to myself again, but I just heard an excellent idea > on #gsoc - pictures! Terri said, "lots of code doesn't need it, but if > you're writing code for a visualizer? an image analyzer? graphing > software? a game?" > > I think a few screenshots where appropriate would spice up our Ideas > page quite a bit. I'm going to add it as an optional part to our > suggested format for Ideas. > > > *Please* do no maintain a separate Ideas page which you present to > > students. We need one central place for Ideas, and rules and > > guidelines as well. > > > > Speaking of guidelines: please read over > > https://community.kde.org/GSoC and see what you think. We've tried to > > clarify the language and make our general expectations clear, as we > > think being upfront about our standards is one way to get better > > proposals and better students. > > I'm serious about the above request. We need to all be on the same > page about the quality of work we expect, and that includes > communication from the students. > > Valorie > > -- > http://about.me/valoriez > -- *Lays Rodrigues* *Software Developer at KDE* *Computer Science Student at Federal Fluminense University* *laysrodriguesdev.wordpress.com <http://laysrodriguesdev.wordpress.com>* *Telegram: @lays147* *IRC: lays147* *Phone: +55 22 999899467*
