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2010 is the third year in which the gEDA Project has participated in Google's Summer of Code program. Through our experience, we have learned a couple of things about running a successful program. Here are the things we ask of our students to help make the GSoC experience a success for everybody. | 2010 is the third year in which the gEDA Project has participated in Google's Summer of Code program. Through our experience, we have learned a couple of things about running a successful program. Here are the things we ask of our students to help make the GSoC experience a success for everybody. | ||
- | * Please get involved with the gEDA Project **before** the summer begins. We are more interested in having new developers join (and stay with) our community than we are in simply giving away easy summer jobs. Therefore, get involved **now!** Join our [[http://geda.seul.org/mailinglist/index.html | mailing lists]], check the code out of git, and fiddle around with it. We will rate your application more highly if you are already a participant, and not just a new face when GSoC application time rolls around. | + | * Please get involved with the gEDA Project **before** the summer begins. We are more interested in having new developers join (and stay with) our community than we are in simply giving away easy summer jobs. Therefore, get involved **now!** Join our [[geda:mailinglists|mailing lists]], check the code out of git, and fiddle around with it. We will rate your application more highly if you are already a participant, and not just a new face when GSoC application time rolls around. |
* Participating in Google Summer of Code is meant to be a **full time job**. We expect that you will work on your project 8 hours/day from Monday to Friday. Summer of Code is not meant to be a side job. Please do not try to work on both Summer of Code and a different job during the summer -- you will tire yourself out, your work quality will suffer, and you won't enjoy the experience at all. | * Participating in Google Summer of Code is meant to be a **full time job**. We expect that you will work on your project 8 hours/day from Monday to Friday. Summer of Code is not meant to be a side job. Please do not try to work on both Summer of Code and a different job during the summer -- you will tire yourself out, your work quality will suffer, and you won't enjoy the experience at all. | ||
- | * Students and mentors should use the [[http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev|geda-dev mailing list]] for (almost) all communication about their GSoC project. There are several reasons for this: | + | * Students and mentors should use the [[geda:mailinglists|geda-developer mailing list]] for (almost) all communication about their GSoC project. There are several reasons for this: |
* Oftentimes, a different developer on the list can answer a question before the mentor even realizes that he's been asked. | * Oftentimes, a different developer on the list can answer a question before the mentor even realizes that he's been asked. | ||
* It increases the sense of community for both the GSoC student, and the rest of the gEDA developers. And the gEDA Project is a community of developers, so community building is a benefit to all. | * It increases the sense of community for both the GSoC student, and the rest of the gEDA developers. And the gEDA Project is a community of developers, so community building is a benefit to all. |