To our GSoC applicants:

You may want to read https://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Blog/SPAM.txt
before you submit (or edit before we read it ;-), for a better first
impression.  It's not a "spec" you should "try" to conform to in your
first draft -- many of the activities discussed are precisely those
where mentoring is most helpful -- but if after reading it you
"naturally" do some things differently or try things you hadn't
thought of before, it will be a win for you.  It will also give you a
preview of many things mentors may ask you to include or improve over
the proposal period.

The current version is now three years old, but I think most of the
ideas still apply.  OTOH, don't trust any links or GSoC deadline
dates! and some stuff like the approved MR requirement aren't
discussed, and of course references to Python 2 or Mailman 2 are now
completely irrelevant to Mailman GSoC.

If you have questions, feel free to ask me personally or on list.  If
you wonder "do I really have to ...?", please ask on the list so other
students can benefit.  I may answer first, but Abhilash is
authoritative on GSoC requirements set by Mailman.

Also, don't take the introductory paragraph personally, no matter how
simple your own self-introduction seems to you.  Believe it or not, we
really used to see applications like that.  They're very rare
nowadays, and I will edit that part dramatically -- but not for a few
days, and I'd like to get this out to you *now* (I thought it was
linked from our GSoC page, but apparently not).

Steve
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