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The determination of appropriate projects is a collaborative effort between those community members (preferably developers) and students (preferably computer science students or adepts). We highly recommend that prospective students join in to the IRC channel and list-servs and discuss ideas for project with the community prior to submitting a proposal. the order of your proposal submission is irrelevant in the decision making process for selection. What is more important is that the mentors for you project have a strong interest in supporting it during the evaluation process.
Review the existing project ideas Summer of Code Ideas or create your own and place your student proposal at the GSoC 2009 Site: http://socghop.appspot.com
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have generally been rejected in the past. We received about 30 applications last year, of which only 4 projects were awarded to us by Google. Yes, that is correct, we do not select how many students can ultimately win, we only rank them according to the communities interest in mentoring the project and it is as much a competition between the mentors as it is the students.
Communications
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Registering as GSoC Student
No reason to not start talking with DSpace community members about projects. We will post the link for accessing the Student Registration Form when it shows up on Monday.
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Please use the dspace-gsoc at lists.sourceforge.net listserve listserv for administrative/internal issues within the group.
Source Control
Source code for the DSPace DSpace Summer of Code 2009 projects is being hosted in our own SVN server:
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Students will have a branch of the DSpace source-code of their choosing setup within this structure under a path:
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https://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/sandbox/gsoc/2009/[your project] |
SoC Students should have write access to the relevant area of the repository, and are encouraged to check in code regularly. If you have any problems, please contact your mentor.
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