GSOC Guide students: Difference between revisions

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Upcomming importants dates for students,

April 06: Student application deadline.

March 26: Student application period opens.

Students should atleast complete following steps on or before 6th April (1900 UTC) to get qualified their submission as valid submission;

have subscribed with the summer-coding mailing list
owns a FAS account
application is available on the Fedora project wiki
application is submitted to google-melange

Missing one of above will results in rejecting your application. Therefore please be extra careful.

Learn about the program

Find a project

Find a project idea from the main idea page.
Students can propose your own idea at the students' idea page.

Start communicating

Begin communicating with the community. Other members of the community can help you refine your idea, and you may meet potential mentors. You should contact sub-projects within the community that can provide mentors for your project idea, and you should join,
- the summer-coding list
- the development list.

Set up an account

If you do not already have an account in the Fedora Account System, create one.

On the project wiki https://fedoraproject.org/wiki, create a user page in the format of User:Yourusername. Do this by opening a new web browser tab and typing in the address https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yourusername, replacing Yourusername with your actual Fedora Account System username.

If you're interested in examples, this user page template provides a basic layout that you can copy. You can also look at the markup for other users' pages. Here's a selection of some that have stood out:

Create your proposal

Navigate the following URL, replacing <UserName> with your fedora username

https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=GSOC_2012/Student_Application_<UserName>&action=edit

Populate the form on this page with the contents of the following, filling in the necessary details:

(make sure to _omit_ the <pre> tags)

Save the page and then click 'watch this page' at the top

Navigate to the following URL, replacing <UserName> with your fedora username and <ProposalName> with the name of your proposal

https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=GSOC_2012/Student_Application_<Username>/<ProposalName>&action=edit

Populate the form on page with the contents of the following, filling in the necessary details

(make sure to _omit_ the <pre> tags)

Save the page and then click 'watch this page' at the top

Repeat steps 5-7 for additional proposals you would like to submit

If you need help visit GSOC_2012#Communication and/or view the sample proposal at GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Bckurera/sample_wiki

Let others know

Let others know about your submission by forwarding your application URL with a brief description about your proposal to the summer-coding mailing list.

Keep communicating

We cannot overstress the importance of communication. Keep talking, and listening, to the discussion group, to the sub-projects relevant to your proposal and to potential mentors. Be patient, as mentors and other contributors are often very busy people.

Please follow the below mentioned guide lines as much as possible.
- Mailing List Guidelines

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 {{Admon/tip | Upcomming importants dates for students, <br/>
-'''March 16:''' List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2012 site.<br/>
+'''April 06:''' Student application deadline.
-'''March 17-25:''' Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.}}
+'''March 26:''' Student application period opens.}}
-{{Admon/tip | Status of the GSoC 2012, now! <br/>
+{{Admon/tip | Students should atleast complete following steps on or before 6th April (1900 UTC) to get qualified their submission as valid submission;
-The Fedora Project has submitted their application to GSoC admins. Whether the Fedora is in the program or not will be announced on 16th March. Fedora participated GSoC in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011.}}
+# have subscribed with the summer-coding mailing list
+# owns a FAS account
+# application is available on the Fedora project wiki
+# application is submitted to google-melange
+Missing one of above will results in rejecting your application. Therefore please be extra careful.
+}}
 ==Learn about the program==
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 ==Start communicating==
-# Begin [[Communicating and getting help|communicating]] with the community.  Other members of the community can help you refine your idea, and you may meet potential mentors.  You should contact sub-projects within the community that can provide mentors for your project idea, and you should join [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding-discuss the discussion group].
+* Begin [[Communicating and getting help|communicating]] with the community.  Other members of the community can help you refine your idea, and you may meet potential mentors.  You should contact sub-projects within the community that can provide mentors for your project idea, and you should join,
+** [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding the summer-coding list]
+** [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel the development list].
 ==Set up an account==
 '''If you do not already have an account in the Fedora Account System, [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new create one].'''<br/>
-# On the project wiki https://fedoraproject.org/wiki, create a user page in the format of <code>User:Yourusername</code>.  Do this by opening a new web browser tab and typing in the address <code>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yourusername</code>, replacing ''Yourusername'' with your actual Fedora account System username.
+* On the project wiki https://fedoraproject.org/wiki, create a user page in the format of <code>User:Yourusername</code>.  Do this by opening a new web browser tab and typing in the address <code>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yourusername</code>, replacing <code>Yourusername</code> with your actual Fedora Account System username.
+* If you're interested in examples, this [[Template:Userpage|user page template]] provides a basic layout that you can copy. You can also look at the markup for other users' pages. Here's a selection of some that have stood out:
+** [[User:Jsimon]]
+** [[User:Ianweller]]
+** [[User:Pfrields]]
+** [[User:Kaio]]
+==Create your proposal ==
+* Login to the [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Fedora_Project_Wiki fedoraproject.org/wiki] using your Fedora Account Credentials.
+* Navigate the following URL, replacing <UserName> with your fedora username
+<code><nowiki>https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=GSOC_2012/Student_Application_<UserName>&action=edit</nowiki></code>
-==Create your single application page==
+* Populate the form on [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Template/Common&action=edit this page] with the contents of the following, filling in the necessary details:
-# The contents of this page are ''transcluded'' in to your proposal, which is a wiki tag to pull (include) the contents of one page in to another page.
+'''(make sure to _omit_ the <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tags)'''
-# Right click on this page name and choose to open in a new tab: [[Summer Coding 2012 student application - Example Student]].
-# Open a new tab and type in the address <code>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2012_student_application_-_Your_Name</code>  Replace ''Your_Name'' with your actual, real name, using an underscore '_' for the space.  This is going to be your ''application page''.
-# Go to the first tab with the ''Example Student'' content and click on the ''edit'' link.  When you have the page source, highlight and copy all of it.
-# Go to the second tab with the ''Your Name'' title, and click the ''create'' tab on the top of the page.  When you have the edit window open, paste in all of the content from the ''Example Student'' tab.
-# Edit the content, using the included comments to guide you.  Be sure to include the category tag at the bottom of the page:
-# <pre><nowiki>[[Category:Summer Coding 2010 student applications]]</nowiki></pre>
-# When saving the page check the ''Watch this page'' box, or click on the ''watch'' tab when the page is published.
-==Draft your proposal==
+* Save the page and then click 'watch this page' at the top
-# Right click on this page name and choose to open in a new tab: [[GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Template]].
+* Navigate to the following URL, replacing <UserName> with your fedora username and <ProposalName> with the name of your proposal
-# Open a new tab and put in the address <code>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012/Student_Application</code>  Replace ''Name_of_proposal'' with a proposal short name, using an underscore '_' for the space.  Try for no more than seven words for the short name, if possible.  This is going to be your ''proposal page''.
-# Go to the first tab with the proposal application and click on the ''edit'' link.  When you have the page source, highlight and copy all of it.
+<code><nowiki>https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=GSOC_2012/Student_Application_<Username>/<ProposalName>&action=edit</nowiki></code>
-# Go to the second tab with the ''Name_of_proposal'' title, and click the ''create'' tab on the top of the page.  When you have the edit window open, paste in all of the content from the proposal application tab.
-# In the source for the new wiki page, note the transclusion, which is a page name surrounded by curly braces:
+* Populate the form on [https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Template/Proposal&action=edit page] with the contents of the following, filling in the necessary details
-# <pre><nowiki>{{:Summer Coding 2010 student application - Example Student}}</nowiki></pre>
-# Replace the ''Example Student'' with ''Your Name'' from your application page name.  Don't worry about the spaces, MediaWiki automatically includes the underscore when it makes the link.
+'''(make sure to _omit_ the <nowiki><pre></nowiki> tags)'''
-# Fill out the rest of the proposal page content with information from your proposal.
-# Be sure your page includes the category tag at the bottom of the page:
+* Save the page and then click 'watch this page' at the top
-# <pre><nowiki>[[Category:Summer Coding 2010 proposals]]</nowiki></pre>
-# When saving the page check the ''Watch this page'' box, or click on the ''watch'' tab when the page is published.
+* Repeat steps 5-7 for additional proposals you would like to submit
-# Look at the saved page and make sure your application page information is transcluded properly.  If you have any problems with making these pages work, use IRC to get help.  Visit the page [[Communication for Summer Coding 2010]] for more information.
+If you need help visit [[GSOC_2012#Communication]]  and/or view the sample proposal at
+[[GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Bckurera/sample_wiki]]
+==Let others know==
+Let others know about your submission by forwarding your application URL with a brief description about your proposal to the <code>summer-coding</code> mailing list.
 ==Keep communicating==
-# We cannot overstress the importance of communication.  Keep talking, and listening, to the discussion group, to the sub-projects relevant to your proposal and to potential mentors.  Be patient, as mentors and other contributors are often very busy people.
+* We cannot overstress the importance of communication.  Keep talking, and listening, to the discussion group, to the sub-projects relevant to your proposal and to potential mentors.  Be patient, as mentors and other contributors are often very busy people.
+* Please follow the below mentioned guide lines as much as possible.
+** [[Mailing_list_guidelines|Mailing List Guidelines]]
 [[Category:Summer_coding_2012]]

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