Hey everyone, First of all, congratulations to all those who got accepted for GSoC 2025 and good luck with your projects.
This is a request for the mentors, I would like it if you could tell us what the differentiating factors were between the proposals of those which are accepted and those that didn't. I am aware there are limited spots but there must be something that made the winning proposals stand out from the rest of them. The answer would be really helpful for me as well as others who may try GSoC 2026. In my case, with the Array Processing Toolbox <https://github.com/Ashborn-SM/GSoC-Proposal/blob/main/latex/main.pdf> project proposal, I believe my shortfall was proposing an ambitious project without any interactions or getting any suggestions from the mentors, lacking contents in the proposal, and rushed all together at the end. If there's anything more please let me know. Thanks and Regards, rahul pillai
