Author: atagar Date: 2013-05-12 19:00:34 +0000 (Sun, 12 May 2013) New Revision: 26182

Modified: website/trunk/about/en/gsoc.wml Log: Disclaimer for sharing which GSoC projects have applications

Several weeks back Moritz told GSoC applicants which project ideas people had already applied for. Personally I'm fine with this - making this public can spread out our strong applicants. This is good for both them and us. However, we should be upfront about this so adding a notice to our GSoC page.

Modified: website/trunk/about/en/gsoc.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/about/en/gsoc.wml 2013-05-10 04:08:21 UTC (rev 26181) +++ website/trunk/about/en/gsoc.wml 2013-05-12 19:00:34 UTC (rev 26182) @@ -119,7 +119,11 @@ parts you expect to be tricky. Your proposal should also try to break down the project into tasks of a fairly fine granularity, and convince us you have a plan for finishing it. A timeline for what you will be doing - throughout the summer is highly recommended.</li> + throughout the summer is highly recommended.<br /><br /> + + <i>Note that we might share which project ideas have strong applications in + order to spread applicants out (it's bad for everyone for several strong + applicants to be for the exact same project).</i><br /><br /></li>

<li>Point us to a code sample: something good and clean to demonstrate that you know what you're doing, ideally from an existing project.</li>