Announcing GSoC 2021 with a few changes

[Austin English]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 11:29 AM André Hentschel <nerv at dawncrow.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> So next years GSoC will be different and I hope it might be good for Wine.
> We had some years with less students and especially less good proposals.
> What changes [1]:
>
> The project size is cut in half, instead of 350 hours per project it'll be
> 175 hours, thus the student stipend is also cut in half.
>
> 2 ealuations instead of 3, but students are not required to pass the first
> one, they can fail it and still can try to pass the second one.
>
> The coding period will be 10 weeks and mentors can agree with students on
> how to spread the work time across those weeks. This should help with
> finals or other commitments.
>
> Eligibility: "we will be allowing students who are 18 years old AND
> currently enrolled (or accepted into) a post-secondary academic program as
> of May 17, 2021 or have graduated from a post-secondary academic program
> between December 1, 2020 and May 17, 2021 to apply to the GSoC program.
> What this means is that now the program will be open to folks participating
> in a variety of different academic programs, not just accredited university
> programs. This includes licensed coding camps, community colleges, and many
> other programs that may not be accredited yet but are post-secondary
> academic programs."
>
> Program timeline: [2]
> Marketing material: [3]
> FAQs: [4]
> short videos with tips for mentors and students: [5]
>
>
> What that means is that I ask everyone to go over our ideas list and
> adjust to the reduced project size. I realize that this might kick out
> quite some projects, but I also think it can attract more good students.
>

Awesome! Hopefully this encourages more students to take advantage!

-- 
-Austin
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