GSOC Guide students

Upcoming important dates for students during the 2015 GSoC

10 March 19:00 UTC Student application period opens.
27 March:19:00 UTC Student application deadline.

Students should at least complete following steps on or before 27 March (1900 UTC) to get qualified their submission as valid submission;

1. have subscribed with the summer-coding mailing list
2. owns a FAS account
3. application is available on the Fedora project wiki
4. application is submitted to google-melange

Missing one of above will result in rejecting your application. Therefore please be extra careful.

Learn about the program

• GSoC official site
• GSoC 2015 FAQs

Find a project

• Find a project idea from the main idea page.
• Students can propose your own idea at the students' idea page.

Start communicating

• Begin communicating with the community. Other members of the community can help you refine your idea, and you may meet potential mentors. You should contact sub-projects within the community that can provide mentors for your project idea, and you should join,
  • the summer-coding list
  • the development list.

Set up an account

If you do not already have an account in the Fedora Account System, create one.

• On the project wiki https://fedoraproject.org/wiki, create a user page in the format of User:Yourusername. Do this by opening a new web browser tab and typing in the address https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yourusername, replacing Yourusername with your actual Fedora Account System username.

• If you're interested in examples, this user page template provides a basic layout that you can copy. You can also look at the markup for other users' pages. Here's a selection of some that have stood out:
  • User:Jsimon
  • User:Ianweller
  • User:Pfrields
  • User:Kaio

Create your Application

• Login to the fedoraproject.org/wiki using your Fedora Account Credentials.

• Navigate the following URL, replacing <UserName> with your fedora username

https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=GSOC_2015/Student_Application_<UserName>&action=edit

• Populate the form on this page with the contents of the following, filling in the necessary details:

• Paste the content from the template page to your wiki page,

(make sure to _omit_ the <pre> tags)

• Save the page and then click 'watch this page' at the top

• Do not forget to add Summer coding <year> category to your page, for example for 2015: [[category:Summer coding 2015]]

If you need help visit GSOC_2015#Communication and/or view the sample proposal at GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Bckurera

Proceed Further

If you have followed instruction at the above then you have started the first step, you need to refer to GSOC_2015/Student_Application_Process and continue.

Let others know

Let others know about your submission by forwarding your application URL with a brief description about your proposal to the summer-coding mailing list.

Keep communicating

• We cannot overstress the importance of communication. Keep talking, and listening, to the discussion group, to the sub-projects relevant to your proposal and to potential mentors. Be patient, as mentors and other contributors are often very busy people.

• Please follow the below mentioned guide lines as much as possible.
  • Mailing List Guidelines