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= Application organized according to program FAQ =

= Application organized according to program FAQ =

=== Describe your organization. ===

=== Describe your organization. ===

===  If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? ===

===  If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? ===

N/A

N/A

===  What license(s) does your project use? ===

===  What license(s) does your project use? ===

* '''Availability''' - How many hours per week can you spend working on this? What other obligations do you have this summer?

* '''Availability''' - How many hours per week can you spend working on this? What other obligations do you have this summer?

* '''Bio''' - Who are you? What makes you the best person to work on this project?

* '''Bio''' - Who are you? What makes you the best person to work on this project?

===  Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please include Google Account information. ===

===  Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please include Google Account information. ===

===  What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible. ===

===  What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible. ===

Our mentors were selected as volunteers from the development team who are already intimately familiar with the internals of ScummVM, our coding conventions etc.. All three are familiar with guiding people (in particular, students) through project work effectively (in fact, two of them happen to be lead developers of ScummVM). As such, we are convinced that we are able to guide interested students through the Summer of Code to the net benefit of all involved parties.

Our mentors were selected as volunteers from the development team who are already intimately familiar with the internals of ScummVM, our coding conventions etc.. All three are familiar with guiding people (in particular, students) through project work effectively (in fact, two of them happen to be lead developers of ScummVM). As such, we are convinced that we are able to guide interested students through the Summer of Code to the net benefit of all involved parties.

===  What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? ===

===  What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? ===

===  What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? ===

===  What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? ===

For the mentors, the risk is relatively low; two are project leads and are reachable virtually 24/7 (in case of emergencies). We all have exchanged sufficient contact information (including cell phone numbers etc.) to be able to discover our whereabouts etc. Should something really bad happen (like somebody ending up in hospital and hence unable to work, a natural disaster, etc.), we will attempt to shift students to new mentors (among the existing mentors, or drawn from our backup pool of mentors). This will depend on the number of students we have to mentor.

For the mentors, the risk is relatively low; two are project leads and are reachable virtually 24/7 (in case of emergencies). We all have exchanged sufficient contact information (including cell phone numbers etc.) to be able to discover our whereabouts etc. Should something really bad happen (like somebody ending up in hospital and hence unable to work, a natural disaster, etc.), we will attempt to shift students to new mentors (among the existing mentors, or drawn from our backup pool of mentors). This will depend on the number of students we have to mentor.

===  What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? ===

===  What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? ===

We also expect the students to talk to non-mentor team members on a regular basis about parts of ScummVM for which these team members are experts (if these parts happen to be relevant for the student's project). To achieve that, the mentors will specifically introduce them to each other, and will try to encourage them to work together.

We also expect the students to talk to non-mentor team members on a regular basis about parts of ScummVM for which these team members are experts (if these parts happen to be relevant for the student's project). To achieve that, the mentors will specifically introduce them to each other, and will try to encourage them to work together.

===  What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes? ===

===  What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes? ===

Our experiences last year show that guys who are genuinely interested in the project will stick around. And that's really the drive for open source: to be interested in the project one is participating. We will try to select students who best match this criterion. Other than that, we run a cool team with loose coding deadlines and a cheerful IRC channel and mailing list, so prospective team members should feel at home soon. We always welcome new contributions with pleasure. Spending some time before someone gets promoted to normal team membership is how we've always done it; GSoC gives us the chance to implement this again, with added benefits too :-)

Our experiences last year show that guys who are genuinely interested in the project will stick around. And that's really the drive for open source: to be interested in the project one is participating. We will try to select students who best match this criterion. Other than that, we run a cool team with loose coding deadlines and a cheerful IRC channel and mailing list, so prospective team members should feel at home soon. We always welcome new contributions with pleasure. Spending some time before someone gets promoted to normal team membership is how we've always done it; GSoC gives us the chance to implement this again, with added benefits too :-)