Hi everyone, at the beginning of the week we have been accepted again into the Google Summer of Code! I could send this announcement only today because I have been super busy.
Please take a look at the project list page for 2018 <http://openwisp.org/gsoc/ideas-2018.html>. Students Please read our GSoC guidelines <http://openwisp.io/docs/developer/google-summer-of-code.html> and the resources linked therein carefully to increase your chances of success and to save us a lot of precious time. *This year we will be very selective. We won't accept sloppy proposals nor students who have not contributed to our community in anyway.* Therefore if you want to increase your chances start early, help one another and contribute. GSoC is ultimately a way for you to learn the good practices of open source development. *Getting accepted is a privilege: accepted students are going to be paid to work on open source and be taught skills that are extremely valuable.* Mentors If you think you have the skills and time to mentor or co-mentor, get in touch with me and Marco Cappellacci. You may also propose a new idea. Previous experience with OpenWISP and open source is required. A good amount of time to dedicate to this is also required. Mentoring properly takes between 5 and 15 hours every week, in the beginning usually the time required is higher. Therefore think about applying only if you are interested in achieving a goal that you need so much that you are willing to invest time and energy into it. *If you think there's the possibility you may have not time or worse take on responsibilities and then disappear, don't even bother please as you'd be doing more harm than good.* If you have never mentored, see also the official Mentor Guide <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/guide#mentor_guide> to understand what it means to mentor a student (takeaway: it requires serious effort). Good luck to everybody! Federico Capoano -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
