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=== What will you do to encourage your accepted students to stick with the project after Google Summer of Code concludes? ===
=== What will you do to encourage your accepted students to stick with the project after Google Summer of Code concludes? ===
The two previous years, we decided to require the GSoC student code be merged into our Master tree much earlier in the process, if possible. <span style="color:red">Our past experience was telling it should be very motivating for students to directly interact with our main repository and could potentially make some of them stay after the end of GSoC: it seems we were right as 2 students out of 4 are still actively contributing, while a 3rd one is still present from times to times. This is obviously for us a very positive sign and we plan to proceed the same way this year again.</span>
In our last two participations, we decided to require the GSoC student code be merged into our Master tree much earlier in the process, if possible. <span style="color:red">Our past experience was telling us it should be very motivating for students to directly interact with our main repository and that this could potentially make some of them stay after the end of GSoC: it seems we were right as 2 students out of 4 are still actively contributing, while a 3rd one is still present from times to times. This is obviously for us a very positive sign and we plan to proceed in the same way this year again.</span>


=== Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here ===
=== Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here ===
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