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We assume you’ve already found our Project Ideas, GSoC Application Template, and Google Summer of Code pages.
Self-assessment
The most important starting point is looking at the prerequisites listed for the project, to confirm that you have these skills or have a foundation of knowledge that lets you acquire them rapidly, largely during the bonding period before your project would begin. It’s fine to be ambitious and target a project where you need to grow, but be realistic: with your academic obligations through the end of the current term, will you be able to read a book and write some code to … Continue Reading

Bayard Bell wrote:

I’ve had some questions about what’s involved, so let me provide some
feedback on issues. I’ve already hit this in terms of the long-term,
but let me try to provide a bottom line for this summer:

1) Mentors can go to the GSoC mentor summit in the fall at Google HQ.
Google provides a reasonable amount of reimbursement for travel (it
was $2500 per attendee last year) plus two nights in a hotel ad
transportation to Mountain View. The mentor summit is a weekend-long
unconference that lets mentors talk about whatever interests them:
recruiting contributors, minority open-source operating systems (we’re
trying to make that more of a … Continue Reading