Disclaimer for sharing which GSoC projects have applications
Damian Johnson

Damian Johnson commited on 2013-05-12 21:00:34
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Several weeks back Moritz told GSoC applicants which project ideas people had
already applied for. Personally I'm fine with this - making this public can
spread out our strong applicants. This is good for both them and us. However,
we should be upfront about this so adding a notice to our GSoC page.


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     parts you expect to be tricky. Your proposal should also try to break
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     down the project into tasks of a fairly fine granularity, and convince
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     us you have a plan for finishing it. A timeline for what you will be doing
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-    throughout the summer is highly recommended.</li>
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+    throughout the summer is highly recommended.<br /><br />
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+    <i>Note that we might share which project ideas have strong applications in
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+    order to spread applicants out (it's bad for everyone for several strong
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+    applicants to be for the exact same project).</i><br /><br /></li>
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     <li>Point us to a code sample: something good and clean to demonstrate
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     that you know what you're doing, ideally from an existing project.</li>
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