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GSoC 2019 Application Template
Be sure to read through the GSoC 2019 Student Instructions first!
To be considered, a GSoC application must have a written proposal submitted to https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com.
If you want, you can start a wiki page to work on your proposal at https://github.com/LSFLK/LSFLK.github.io/wiki. If you add your proposal there, we will help you edit it and provide feedback (though understand that we will not help you write it). You can add your application to our list of GSoC 2019 Current Applications. To maintain a consistent naming scheme, title your application: "GSoC 2019 Application : ". Old applications can be found either through the links on the main page of the wiki or by browsing through _pages.
Note that your final application must be submitted at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com, so do not worry about the formatting of your application on the wiki.
You should include the following information in your proposal:
Please use a succinct title that describes your proposal. Do not include the words "GSoC", "2019", or your name in the proposal title.
Please put this information at the top of your proposal.
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Your full name
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University / current enrollment
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Short bio / overview of your background
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How can we contact you (email, GitHub username, etc.)? This information will help us associate all of your various usernames with you.
- GitHub username
- Any other user name you want us to know about
Also, please use your full real name in your GSoC portal profile, so that it appears in the proposal list.
In your project proposal let us know about your programming experience. Warmly welcome for fresh students too. We will teach you what you need to know.
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What platform do you use to code? What editor do you prefer and reasons?
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What is your experience programming? Tell us about something you have created.
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What is your experience with Research and Development?
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Why you need to contribute for an opensource project/organization?
Answer the following questions in your proposal:
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What do you want to achieve?
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What excites you about this project? Why did you choose it?
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What qualifications do you have to implement your idea/project?
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What have other people done on this idea? Has it been implemented before? (hint: it probably has) Are there any papers or blog posts about it?
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How much time do you plan to invest in the project before, during, and after the Summer of Code? (we expect full time 40h/week during GSoC, but better make this explicit) If you plan to take any vacations over the summer, let us know about it here.
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Please provide a schedule of how this time will be spent on sub-tasks of the project over the period of the summer. While this is only preliminary, we will use it to help monitor your progress throughout the program. Also understand that during the project you will issue weekly progress reports against that plan on your blog.
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In planning your project, it is good to note where along the way you could formulate a pull request. These would be points where you can have a self contained and well documented and tested piece of functionality. Doing this at several points during the summer helps to keep branch merges reasonable and code reviews manageable.
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Please do not verbatim copy text from the ideas page, or from other people's discussions about your project, but rewrite it in your own words. If you include any significant text or code from another source in your application, it must be accompanied with a proper citation. All papers or references that you use or plan to use must also be cited. Put all this in a "References" section at the bottom of your application.