Hi all, this is a message to all students who have expressed interest in GSoC and LilyPond or Frescobaldi (even those who haven't engaged in further communication recently). I send it to both mailing lists and all of you in BCC. If you want to reply please do so to the respective lists rather than directly. (Well, if you just want to let us know you're not interested anymore you can do so privately as well.)
We've received many posts from interested students, a number of you have engaged in further discussion of varying deptgh or have even laid their hands on code, but very few have actually submitted anything on the GSoC site. For all who are interested in participating I strongly recommend to upload a draft proposal ASAP. Depending on the number of drafts we will try to review them up-front and can give you recommendation where we see the need for improvement. Deadline for applications is Tuesday, April 3, 2017 18:00 (CEST). GSoC deadlines are "hard" deadlines, there's nothing to be done about missed dates. And you have to take care for yourself to upload a final version as well, drafts will not automatically become final applications. Be sure to review the students manual at http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsocstudentguide/what-is-google-summer-of-code/ and make sure to get everything right. GSoC is a competitive program, and it looks like there will be more applications than we will be able to accept - although we have no idea yet how many slots *we* will get from GSoC. So please try as hard as you can to write a good proposal but also be prepared to *not* be accepted. *If* you are not accepted this doesn't mean we don't like your proposal, the reason can also be that there is simply another proposal for the same project that has convinced us more, or we can't accept the project because of our mentoring and slot resources. # Where to apply? LilyPond is pretty hard to find on the GSoC site (we will have to make that clearer next year) because we're not a mentoring organization but part of GNU. On the organizations page https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations you'll have to find "The GNU project" - which will only be visible when the page count in the URL has counted up to 5, which can take a significant amount of time. So you better go to the project page https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5029441722908672/ directly. Frescobaldi's project page is https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6253554806292480/. # Double application Those of you who intend to apply for the Frescobaldi projects "Implement a system to handle scores system by system", "openLilyLib user interface" or "MusicXML export" may consider applying for both Frescobaldi *and* LilyPond (with an identical proposal), as these can reasonably be justified in both organizations. This may help us distributing our mentoring and slot resources and thus increase your chances of being accepted. Keep in mind that you may apply for up to five GSoC projects. Best wishes and good luck Urs -- u...@openlilylib.org https://openlilylib.org http://lilypondblog.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel