GSoC: Mentors, sign up! Students, begin submitting your proposals!

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 17:41 -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> Now that students can start submitting applications to Mercurial, you
> will need to be approved as a mentor for Mercurial before you can see
> these applications. The process goes in two steps:
> 
> (1) Sign up to Melange or renew your thing from past years
> 
> (2) Send a mentor "connection" so I can approve it. There should be a
> big "mentors sign up!" button somewhere.
> 
> Melange's navigation is notoriously bad, so if you have trouble doing
> either one, please let me know.
> 
> As for students, you should also sign up for Melange, and then you can
> start submitting your proposal to Mercurial. You can edit your
> proposal as much as you want up until the deadline by the end of next
> week. I, for one, encourage you to work on your proposal publicly so
> we can see where your ideas are developing or even to suggest
> improvements as you go along.

As much as we like to be open, I think we actually should do the
applications in private, as we've seen incidents of plagiarizing here. 
But feel free to ask mentors or other devs to review your application:
we absolutely DO encourage engaging with community members wherever
possible.

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