GSoC proposal guidelines

Student Proposal Guidelines

We do not require a specific format, but the following information would be useful to us. They must be submitted through Melange

• Name.
• Email address we can reach you at.
• Name of project
• Goal of project
• Sketch the technical approach that you intend to take. Point out relevant code in VTK that you think you will use and/or extend.
• Provide a timeline with milestones of your expected development progress.
• Do you have any other commitments during the summer that will affect your start date, end date or compete for your coding attention? /* GSOC is intended to be a full time summer job, mentors will enforce a high level of involvement with VTK. */

In addition you might like to include the following information to help us assess your application,

• Please tell us about yourself (technical background, open source contributions, etc).
• What are you studying?
• Why are you the right person for the proposed project?
• Have you built VTK (or ParaView if appropriate)?
• Have you submitted a small patch to VTK's gitlab for review and provided a link? /* Strongly recommended by not an absolute requirement. */
• How many hours per week do you intend to work on the project?
• How familiar are you with the programming language(s), technologies and software projects you intend to work with? Have you used the software before, have you read the source and have you ever submitted patches to the project?
• Are you comfortable working remotely under a mentor who may not be in the same time zone as you? Have you ever worked in a similar way before? How will you communicate with your mentor, keep them updated of progress/work through problems?
• If your native language is not English, are you comfortable working closely with a mentor whose native language is English? It is also possible that we could pair you with a mentor who has the same native language.
• IRC, instant messenger/alternate contact details.
• Provide the name and email address of your academic advisor at your school who we can contact if we've got questions about your background work.

After you have written your proposal you should get it reviewed. Do not rely on the mentors to do it for you via the web interface, ask a colleague or developer for feedback.