Hello, Here is some generic advice for students applying to SoC.
Firstly - please *INCLUDE* your nick name (IRC, email, etc). It's a little tricky sometimes to match applications to people on the lists and IRC if you don't say who you go by. JLP has suggested the following, which everyone else very much agrees with. - Equip each task of your project with the estimated time. For example how long will it take and/or by which date do you plan to finish it. Two important dates to synchronise with are July 16 (mid-term evaluation deadline) and August 31 (final evaluation deadline). - Say how much time are you planing to dedicate to the project per day and/or week. - Try to tell in more detail in what way, with what methods are you planing to work on the tasks. - If you have already checked out the current state of the code for the server do say so. - Also mention that you have already been communicating with other project members using IRC as this is also a bonus point and you can also tell how much information about the current state of the code or what other information you have gathered that way. - What are your plans to stay in contact with mentors (IRC, Forum, mailing lists, IM, ...)? - Tell if you plan to set up a blog where you would be writing about your development, as this is also a bonus point. Nash also proposed the following, which should be contained in any excellent application, - What are the risks in this project? And what will you do to minimise them? Both technical and non-technical risks would be good. Don't be disheartened by comments on your application even if they sound a bit negative. Getting comments means we are interested in your proposal and are trying to help you make your application even better (and thus more likely to get in). Hope this helps people. Tim Ansell _______________________________________________ tp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp/mailman.php/listinfo/tp-devel
