Experiences from last year's GSOC

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Dienstag 17 Februar 2009 10:14:18 schrieb Martin Geisler:
> I hope we can improve the success rate by thinking about this when
> selecting projects and students.

Since there weren't any answers yet, I want to provide some input: 

The Hurd project had a questionaire to select only students who were already 
knowledgeable. It had four students of which all were successful (and even one 
additional student who did the work outside the formal GSoC and still 
completed it): 
- 
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/student_application_form.html

Also they required students to play with the system and meet up in IRC before 
being accepted. 

And they had weekly IRC meetings every Friday at 19:00 UTC which were (mostly) 
mandatory for the students: 
- http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/irc.html#regular_meetings

Best wishes, 
Arne
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