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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">Since GSoC 2014, we decided to require the GSoC student code to be merged into our Master tree much earlier in the process if possible.</span> 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.
Since GSoC 2014, we have 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 is 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.


=== 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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