Hallo! I just pushed an update to <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc.html>; the interesting bits are replicated in the following. GSoC applicants, please pay attention to this. :-)
| This year's *student application period* is over. Thanks for sending | in your applications! We're now reviewing and discussing these, so | please pay attention to any questions posted on your proposal's page. | The Google site's notification system should be sending out emails, | too. | | As we only have finite resources (meaning that we won't be able to | accept all GNU Hurd applications even if we wanted to), we will | eventually need to make a choice about whom to select. For this, it is | a very good idea to be in contact with us, be it by answering the | evaluators' questions on your proposal's page, or by talking to us on | the mailing lists, | <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/mailing_lists.html>, or on IRC, | <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/irc.html>. At this time, it is | important for us to get a good impression about the seriousness you're | showing with your application. | | It is a good idea to get familiar with the GNU Hurd, by reading some of | our documentation, | <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/documentation.html>, and by using a | GNU/Hurd system. It is also a good idea to send in some basic patches | (this has already been mentioned in our student_application_form, | <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/student_application_form.html>, | or discuss with us the principal steps you're planning on doing in your | intended work area. Of course, we don't expect you to already start | working seriously on your project, but any input you're giving us will | make it easier for us to justify selectiong your specific proposal. At | this time, it is not quantity that matters, and it also is not *the | perfect patch* we're waiting for, but it is rather that we see how | you're generally able to work with the code. | | If you have any questions, don't be shy: please ask! Nobody expects | you to know everything. Even for the long-term Hurd contributors it is | common to openly post messages to bug-hurd, | <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/mailing_lists/bug-hurd.html>, saying: | *Hey, I don't know how to do `X', can someone please help me?* And, as | we're not working next to each other in a conventional office or | university setup, we'll need to establish and get used to different | communication channels. | | Timeline, <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2011>. | As boring as it is, but the next step is waiting: we will have to wait | for Google to announce the number of slots that the whole GNU project | gets, and we'll be discussing with our GNU peers about how to split | these up among all the GNU subprojects. Grüße, Thomas
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