[or-cvs] r22018: {website} tighten it up, then add the 'how to get involved' section (website/trunk/en)

Roger Dingledine arma at torproject.org
Thu Mar 18 23:22:39 UTC 2010


Author: arma
Date: 2010-03-18 23:22:39 +0000 (Thu, 18 Mar 2010)
New Revision: 22018

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/gsoc.wml
Log:
tighten it up, then add the 'how to get involved' section


Modified: website/trunk/en/gsoc.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/en/gsoc.wml	2010-03-18 23:10:11 UTC (rev 22017)
+++ website/trunk/en/gsoc.wml	2010-03-18 23:22:39 UTC (rev 22018)
@@ -17,17 +17,11 @@
 2007</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/eff/about.html">2008</a>,
 and <a href="http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/home/google/gsoc2009/eff">2009</a>.
 In total we had 17 students as full-time developers for the summers of 2007 to
-2009.
+2009. Now we've been accepted to <a
+href="https://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2010/tor">Google
+Summer of Code 2010</a>!
 </p>
 
-<p>
-Google has announced that there will also be a <a
-href="http://socghop.appspot.com/">Google Summer of Code 2010</a>, and <a
-href="https://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2010/tor">we've
-been accepted!</a>
-This page contains some information for interested students.
-</p>
-
 <!--<p>
 The <a
 href="http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#timeline">deadline</a>
@@ -49,7 +43,7 @@
 In addition to getting some more development work
 done on Tor and related applications, Google and Tor are most interested
 in getting students involved in Tor development in a way that keeps them
-involved after the summer too. As such, we will give priority to students
+involved after the summer too. That means we will give priority to students
 who have demonstrated continued interest and responsiveness. We will require
 students to write public status report updates for our community, either by
 blogging or sending mail to our mailing list. We want to ensure that the
@@ -74,6 +68,24 @@
 systems</a>.</li>
 </ul>
 
+<a id="GettingInvolved"></a>
+<h2><a class="anchor" href="#GettingInvolved">How To Get Involved</a></h2>
+
+<p>
+The best way to get involved is to come listen on IRC (both "#tor" and
+"#tor-dev"), read our docs and other webpages, try out the various tools
+that are related to the projects that interest you, and ask questions
+as they come to you: <a href="<page documentation>#UpToSpeed">Getting
+up to speed</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When it comes time for us to choose projects, our impression of how well
+you'll fit into our community &mdash; and how good you are at taking
+the initiative to do things &mdash; will be at least as important as
+the actual project you'll be working on.
+</p>
+
 <a id="Ideas"></a>
 <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Ideas">Ideas List</a></h2>
 



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