Excellent news! I second Harald's call that quality is better than
quantity when it comes to both students and projects. Requiring
potential students to have at least one non-trivial (well written)
submission before selection is a great way of measuring this.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Harald Schilly
<harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone. Sage got accepted as a mentoring organization for the GSoC
> project.
>
> This means, there will a couple of new students who pop up here and start
> asking about various projects and other issues regarding Sage. We have never
> been accepted to GSoC before, so we also have to find a way to organize all
> this.
>
> our page:
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/sage
>
> project ideas (only ideas! students can also submit other proposals)
> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1v91UmkDvgEInzPFT_g0osid5g69oKKmyx0NclwcyqI4
>
> timeline:
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012
>
> I already wrote to all possible mentors to create an account at this
> google-melange.com page and everyone additionally has to apply as a mentor!
> Maybe someone else  feels fit to guide a student through a summer project,
> too?
>
> Besides that, there are some resources about this. Additionally to the FAQ
> on the gsoc page, i found this:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/notes-for-first-year-organizations/
>
> H
>
>
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