On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Arindam Padhy <[email protected]> wrote:
> but on 11th march the mentor said in his comment that he has already found
> some strong students for this project.that means from the beginning only
> you guys have fixed who will work for you,that is before the student
> applications begin.
> he also mentioned in his statement that even if you solve microtasks you
> would not be selected.I dont deny the fact that the students he has
> selected may be good ,but they are not the only potential candidates, there
> will always be a lot of candidates better than him. of course the mentor
> is not a god that he will know frm the beginning that who is the best
> candidate for this project without actually looking at al the proposals .
> even in the official gsoc site in their time line it is mentioned that the
> mentors are giving a time period where they look at all the proposals and
> find for any duplication.i know you guys are developers but without even
> considering a student's proposal you are telling him that you will not be
> selected.this can only happen if the either the candidate is very close to
> the mentor i.e from his nation or from his family.
If the project already has a very good candidate, then you have two options:
1. be a better candidate.
(you never know your luck, the other very good candidate may not
even apply before the deadline)
2. apply for a different project.
Whatever option you take, you need to write a very good application,
be active in the IRC channel, and fixing relevant bugs will boost your
luck in being selected.
There are 11 projects 'Featured for GSoC and Outreachy' status on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/
There are an additional 7 in 'Missing Mentors' status. If you write a
good application for one of those, we'll try harder to find a mentor.
In google-melange, I see only three projects which have a candidate
application, so that leaves 15 projects without any candidates.
There are also 38 possible projects in other status. If you think you
have the skills to do them, start a discussion on IRC and/or the
Phabricator task to attempt to push the project forward.
If you have an idea which isn't on the 'possible tech projects' board,
you should search Phabricator extensively, as Phabricator is full of
good ideas - almost 15 years worth of good ideas are in the database.
Find similar ideas in Phabricator. Talk about your idea on IRC.
--
John Vandenberg
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