(heavily borrowed from the email I sent to wp-hackers)
Attention students applying for Google Summer of Code this year: the deadline is today, at 19:00 UTC. That’s about 3.5 hours from now. Double check your time zone here: http://bit.ly/bP1fXT. No late applications will be accepted.
Mentors and community members: if you’ve been talking with students about their applications, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” them now and ask if they’ve submitted their applications yet. They might have the time confused, and Google will not allow late submissions.
There are still quite a few potential projects on our Ideas list that don’t have many applications, if any. Also, a number of the applications are for backups–students applying for more than one project to try and increase their chance at a slot. If we get more applications, we’re more likely to get enough slots to cover the projects, so don’t bow out without applying!
Students: If you have applied for a project but see on the ideas page that a lot of students have applied for the same project, you may want to consider submitting a backup application for another WordPress project, just in case another student has a better proposal on the project idea. Here’s the thing: we’ll only take on one student per project idea, so if two amazing students propose the same project, only one of them gets it. If they’ve each submitted alternate project proposals, though, then we could work with both amazing students for the summer. Ideas page: https://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2010
At this point it’s too late to send around ideas to the wp-hackers list to get feedback, attend IRC chats and correspond with potential mentors. If you have an idea you’d like to pursue, just submit a great application. (Make sure you use the application template from https://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC_2010_Application_Template .) If your proposal sounds awesome but we need to get more information from you about the approach in order to decide, we’ll ask.
You can’t win if you don’t play, right? Five thousand bucks for two months of coding over the summer with WordPress hotshots. I know a lot of people that would love that deal.
Apply now! Apply at: http://socghop.appspot.com/