Hi all, [Liviu: I wanted to send the previous e-mail as reply-all but made a mistake, so you get a duplicate with a few more lines; sorry.]
Congratulations on being accepted! I have been GSoC mentor in a different project several times, and in my experience, the student selection process is the most important phase. LyX is not yet listed on GSoC's list of accepted organizations (110 out of 193 are currently shown); probably an extra registration step is needed. Please check so prospective students can see us. In the students you intend to accept, you want quality. Ideally, students who have made a contribution before (such as a patch, or at least a couple of e-mails/bug reports suggesting they can understand the code to some extent). So it's a very good idea to contact students who submitted patches before. To be able to accept a number of students, you also want *quantity*. Google generally approves a certain percentage of all applications. This means that for each project you would like to carry out, you need several applications; only then, there is a good chance to get the necessary number of slots. So if you still have contacts at universities, or through other ways, please advertise this year's program as much as possible; your success depends very much on that. We can also accept a new student if we can see a potential during the application phase; for example, the new student may study some code pertaining to a project, and show (maybe through some proof-of-concept patch) that he or she can produce working code in three months. However, for the numbers, it is actually also good for us to have many applications from unknown students who just write a couple of paragraphs in the application form. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear all, > Good news. LyX has been accepted for GSoC 2013! Now Stefano and I need > to prepare the public profile for LyX, and soon we will hopefully have > students contacting us on lyx-devel. The Student application period > opens on April 22 and the deadline is on May 3. > > Please let us know if you have any suggestions on how best to proceed > (student applications, mentorships, etc.). Regards, > Liviu > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: <no-re...@google-melange.appspotmail.com> > Date: Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:43 PM > Subject: [ LyX – The Document Processor] Your organization application > has been accepted. > To: landronim...@gmail.com > > > Congratulations! > > Your Organization Application for " LyX – The Document Processor" in > Google Summer of Code 2013 has been accepted. Please click > " > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/organization/google/gsoc2013?org_id=lyx > to fill in the necessary information and create your Organization > profile. > > **Please note that your organization will not appear in the list of > Mentoring Organizations on the Google Summer of Code 2013 site until > you have completed this profile.** > > If you have questions about items on this profile we would recommend > you read over the Melange User's Guide's section titled "Our > organization was accepted! How do I create my organization homepage?" > > Best regards, > > Google Open Source Programs > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail > -- Regards, Cyrille Artho
