Hello, all,

Here's a quick update on what's going on with Clojure's participation in
this year's Google Summer of Code.  We have already received a number of
strong proposals, and I can only hope we will be able to accept them
all.

What's going on?
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The student application period closes today at 19:00 UTC.  Over the
weekend, I will request a number of student allocations based on the
applications we received.  On Wednesday evening, Google will let me know
how many students we will get.  If we want more students, there is an
opportunity to get on a waiting list for more allocations.

From now until 22 May, mentors will be able to volunteer to mentor
specific proposals and to review and rate student applications.  There
will be a short period where there will be deduplication checks (finding
out if a student has been accepted by more than one organisation).
Finally, on 27 May, Google will announce all students who have been
accepted.


Students
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Today at 19:00 UTC the student application will close, and no new
applications will be accepted.  Remember to follow the application
guidelines we have set out [1].

[1]: http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Student+application+guidelines


Mentors
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Please sign up on Melange [2] to be a mentor for our organisation.
Additionally, if you are interested in mentoring a specific student's
proposal, please indicate that on the student's application.  You can do
this as follows:

1. Log in to Melange with your credentials.
2. Click on the 'My Dashboard' link on the left sidebar.
3. Click on the dashboard page, click on 'Proposals submitted to my
organizations'.
4. Click on the the proposal you are interested in.
5. On the left hand side, you will see a 'Wish to Mentor' toggle.  You
should set this to 'Yes'.

This is very important.  I need to know how many mentors are interested
in each proposal.  We have a lot of very good student proposals, but I
can only accept those for which we also have mentors.  So, please do
this as soon as possible.  Please do this even if you are only
interested in being a secondary mentor.

[2]: https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/clojure_dev


Thanks to everyone for your help with GSoC.  I think it's going to be a
great summer.

Sincerely,

Daniel

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