----- Forwarded message from Terri Oda <[email protected]> ----- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:42:59 -0700 From: Terri Oda <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [Soc2014-mentors] 2014 PSF Application template now available
I've put up the application template for this year: https://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/ApplicationTemplate2014 It may undergo some tweaking if it turns out the wording is unclear, but this should be pretty stable otherwise. Things to note: * Some of the sections are in fact new this year (I'm asking for time zone and a blog feed url up-front) * We require all students to submit a code patch as part of their application. Ideally, we'd like this to be patch for your sub-org, fixing an easy bug. If for some reason that's not workable for your org, you can give the students alternative instructions (such as a preset practice problem), but do have them submit a link to some sort of code sample written for this purpose. * As in previous years, we will be requiring the students to blog every 2 weeks. This is how I (and my fellow org admins, Florian and Meflin) keep track of student progress, as it's impractical for us to get involved in 21 development mailing lists. We use this as an early warning system for problems, a way for us as org admins to get a sense of the work we're sponsoring, and a way for us to promote that work outside of our little GSoC crowd. This year, I'm in the process of making arrangements with the PSF to show off the student work to the wider Python community, and if all goes well they'll also be aggregated on Planet Python and occasionally some highlights will be featured on the PSF blog. * I am really serious about requiring the sub-org name in the title of the project. You're going to be able to see all the student applicants and searching manually through 100 applications to find the 8 that are relevant to you is annoying. Last year, they gave me an option to add fields for us to use so I added one so you could sort by sub-org, but those fields don't show up in the emails google sends out or in the midterm/final lists, so we need the sub-org name in the project title anyhow. * Especially if you're new to GSoC, you may want to read the recommended proposal guidelines here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ch008_writing-a-proposal/ And the example proposals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ch027_proposal-example-1/ http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ch028_proposal-example-2/ * You should feel free to request any additional information you think you need! _______________________________________________ Soc2014-mentors mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/soc2014-mentors ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Gael Varoquaux Researcher, INRIA Parietal Laboratoire de Neuro-Imagerie Assistee par Ordinateur NeuroSpin/CEA Saclay , Bat 145, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette France Phone: ++ 33-1-69-08-79-68 http://gael-varoquaux.info http://twitter.com/GaelVaroquaux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
