Google Summer of Code sample Student Application Form
Google Summer of Code sample Student Application Form
Warning: Please try to answer these guiding questions when you write your Google Summer of Code application for an XWiki project.
- Your Name:
- Email Address:
- Instant messenger name and protocol (if any):
- Any professional/resume or personal/blog URLs you would like to list:
Project
- Project Name: One of the suggestions, or your own idea
- Project Description: Your own description of the project and why it's interesting
- If you would be willing and able to do other projects instead, which ones?
- Please describe why you are interested in this specific project:
- Please describe a tentative project architecture or an approach to it:
- Please detail an expected project plan and timeline with milestones:
Technical skills
- Please describe in a few lines your Java/Javascript/Web knowledge or experience (if any):
- Please describe any Velocity/Hibernate/Database experience (if any):
- Please describe any XWiki experience (if any):
- Please describe any other project related experience (if any):
Open Source
- Please describe any previous Open Source development experience:
- Why are you interested in Open Source development ?
Background & education
- What school do you attend?
- What is your specialty/major at the school?
- How many years have you attended there?
Summer plans
- What city/country will you be spending this summer in?
- How much time do you expect to have for this project?
- Please list jobs, summer classes, and/or vacations that you'll need to work around:
GSoC Experience
- Did you participate in a previous Summer of Code project? If so (and it wasn't XWiki), please describe your project and experience:
- Have you applied or do you plan to apply for any other 2009 Summer of Code projects? If so, which ones?
- Why did you decide to apply for the Google Summer of Code ?
- Why did you decide to apply for an XWiki project ?
And finally...
- … in 2 sentences, why should we take YOU ?
