Difference between revisions of "Summer of Code/Application/2016"

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=== How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC? ===
=== How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC? ===
<span style="color:red">In our last two participations, we decided to require the GSoC student code to be merged into our Master tree much earlier in the process, if possible. 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 several former students kept contributing more than a year after our last participation. This is obviously for us a very positive sign and we plan to proceed in the same way this year again.</span>
<span style="color:red">In our latest two participations, we decided to require the GSoC student code to be merged into our Master tree much earlier in the process if possible. Our past experience told 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 several former students have kept contributing for more than a year afterwards. This is obviously a very positive sign for us and we plan to proceed in the same way this year again.</span>


=== Has your org been accepted as a mentoring org in Google Summer of Code before? ===
=== Has your org been accepted as a mentoring org in Google Summer of Code before? ===
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