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=== Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015? What do you hope to gain by participating? ===
=== Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015? What do you hope to gain by participating? ===
Each year since 2007, the program gave us the opportunity to have talented and motivated students working with us. We also love the GSoC mentor summit where we have the opportunity to share our knowledge with mentors from other projects and to learn a lot from them. That's why we wait impatiently, each year, for the announcement of a new GSoC program!
As usual, what we hope to gain is valuable code contributions. In previous years, we've had students take up and complete tasks which had been marked as "to-do", but the main developers had no time to implement them. The students took these up as self-contained GSoC projects and realized them. But also, some students have come up with new functionality, proposing and finally implementing it. These have been our favorite.
In addition, we hope to gain new developers for the project. We hope that after their projects, students will stick around and improve them or work on other interesting tasks. We hope that GSoC brings the students in touch with open source and, in our case, brings them in touch with game development. We hope these students will add their piece of code to this project, but will also keep on contributing afterwards.
We've been successful in the past eight years, and we're really looking forward to great results from the program this year too.
=== How many potential mentors do you have for this year's program? What criteria did you use to select them? ===
=== How many potential mentors do you have for this year's program? What criteria did you use to select them? ===
=== What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? ===
=== What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? ===