On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Dipen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Dipen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Ratnadeep >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am final year engineering student and this year i want to participate >>> for >>> Google Summer of Code. Regarding this I need help for things like - >>> >>> - Selection of organization and project. >>> - Regarding application form such that there will be more chances for >>> getting selected. >>> >>> Is there any expert or mentor worked with GSoC or any past GSoC student >>> in >>> Pune who can guide for GSoC. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> Ratnadeep Deshmane. >>> http://rtdp.blogspot.com >>> _______________________________________ >>> Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List >>> >> >> >> Ok My emails have been bouncing off coz of top posting - >> http://idallen.com/topposting.html So here are my 3 e mails ... >> >> Hi Ratnadeep, >> >> If you are interested in web programming and CMS's I would suggest you >> take a look at drupal and their ecosystem for GSOC. Every year drupal gets >> around 20-23 students approved by google to work on drupal, which is at par >> or i think even better than most of the popular open source projects. For >> example mysql got some 3-5 students approved only, google has some long >> standing relationship with drupal world and that can be seen when drupal >> gets so many students approved. >> >> You need to decide whats your passion when it comes to open source and >> what kind of OSS project you wanna contribute to. If you decide to look at >> drupal as an option and have skills there, i would be happy to help with >> your application and I think I will also apply to be a mentor this year. >> >> All the best >> Dipen >> >> >> >> > Going through your blog, I found that you have relatively heavy tag cloud > towards RoR, which is cool framework to be working on. RoR is on a important > transition upgrading itself to a major release change and I am sure project > can use some help. Things I would suggest as a way forward: > > 1> Spend as much time as you can in #rubyonrails or place where core > developers talk > 2> Find out the pain points which align with your expertise or something > you wish to improve in RoR, most of the times students dont have such knack > of identifying pain points hence point 1, listen to the pro's talking about > it. > 3> Write a non obtrusive 1 mail to few developers who actively blog and > dont freak out at social contact from anonymous. You can establish that > dev's who tweet often are often receptive. Do NOT nag or drain the developer > by e mailing many times. Ask them for same advice but with more information > about your background ( unlike this e mail ) > 4> Try to find developers from indian community in the project and contact > them as well. Since I am assuming its RoR for you, it wouldn't be a bad idea > to attend rubyconf and meet pratik naik (core developer of RoR) Also I think > Satish Talim is petty active in RoR. > > > All above will help you identify the topic or problem you will write > application again, its quite possible the people you contact and get > feedback from in first phase are the ones who will judge the applications, > so they have perspective of what u are trying to accomplish and if it has > their input as well then getting accepted is sure shot, given u prove the > skill part. > > All in All to cut it short, getting Gsoc approval is all about how well u > are known in community and if u have existing contributions then great, but > if you dont then above steps can help you build that rapport. > > I have couple of past Gsoc interns and I can connect you for the > application part of it, but before that you need to figure out what you > wanna work on, thats paramount. > > Though in 2009 RoR got only 4 students approved, which kind of lower the chances but its better to be working in your choice of framework then pick something like drupal ( which is PHP and maybe something u dont wanna invest ur time in) just for the money incentive. Though you can evaluate drupal and see if u like it, but you gotta be honest with yourself :)
Work on only one application or problem through out the course, dont even attempt to submit multiple applications just because you can. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
