Why participate
- Learn from experienced people
- Acquaintances
- Google $
- Swag
- CV
How to find the right project
- What skills you have
- What you want to learn
- Search in melange: use keywords
- Find an organization
- Search its wiki and pick a project you like or propose yours, ideally something you know/heard of
Approaching the org
- Every org has a GSoC wiki, read it
- Contact the mentor of the project
- Subscribe to mailing list (usually written in wiki)
- Introduce yourself to the ML and your interest in the project
- Join irc discussions
How to write a good proposal
- Do your search, learn about project, difficulties
- Take notes all the time (worked for me)
- Know thy deliverables
- Start building the skeleton: use headlines and fill in the details later
- Ask for feedback
- Plan a feasible timeline
Helpers
- Trello board
- Write a blog post about the project prior to submitting the proposal
- Ask for feedback, again!
