Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

[Ivan Vučica]

It is possibly best to talk to talk to teacher. You can pose it in the form of a question: "Hello, I am from X. Because of my personal interest in GNUstep (which is an open source implementation of <insert your own description here>), I wonder if you are aware of Google Summer of Code? Students get to interact with an open source community, contribute code and earn some money." After that, it depends on the teacher.

Teachers know students and may (ideally should?) be interested in students practicing software engineering.

Other than that, email, forums, etc. are good. So is talking to your friends. I'm not sure other offline methods are worth it without support from teachers.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Svetlana A. Tkachenko <svetlana@members.fsf.org> wrote:

Here the semester is about to end on November 21 2015 and all students
will have a break until Feb 15 2016. I do not know whether I may ask the
Computer Science school to circulate an email asking whether any
students would like to pick on
http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Application_wish_list or similar for
the GSOC 2016 as 1) I am from another school and from another faculty,
and 2) they wouldn't understand why I'm trying to ask about GNUstep
specifically and not about something else (there will be a list of lots
of other interesting projects at GSOC). If someone can think of a way to
write a message which gets past the second trouble then I could try to
get in touch with the school and see whether they would like to pass it
on. I have no experience doing such things so any insight into how to
best do it would be appreciated (including non-email means).

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Svetlana A. Tkachenko
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