Announcing GSoC 2021 with a few changes

[André Hentschel]

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.

If you are a student reading this, feel free to start discussing your idea on the wine-devel mailing list [6] or the #winehackers IRC channel at freenode.net [7]


[1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/10/google-summer-of-code-2021-is-bringing.html
[2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
[3] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/marketing
[4] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq
[5] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/videos
[6] https://www.winehq.org/forums
[7] irc://irc.freenode.net/#winehackers