This is the homepage of the DuraSpace Google Summer of Code projects.
Student Application Process
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 or create your own and place your student proposal at the GSoC 2010 Site: http://socghop.appspot.com
A word of warning, in past years, bulk applications have been immediately rejected as "insincere".
Likewise, proposals that do not effectively outline:
- who you are (i.e. your academic background)
- why you want to participate
- what you propose to do
- how you will do it
- and finally a clearly defined timeline/project plan
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.
