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SoC application period ended

The application period for students ended last week on Tuesday. Before the weekend we were a bit worried. We received as few as 25 applications up to Friday (1/3 ineligible). And this time we advertised the program even more than last year. But as with the OOoCon 2006 Call for Papers (closing end of this month) people took their time and submitted just before the deadline.

During the initial review 20 applications were marked as ineligible due to insufficient information, extensive cut&paste work, a new revision, ... 2 applications were out of scope for OpenOffice.org and have been given to other organizations. Now we are reviewing in more detail a respectable number of applications for 35 SoC project ideas backed by 20 mentors and tied to 15 OpenOffice.org projects.

You wouldn't guess which idea most students would like to work on: guessing the language of a text. We are now gathering all the necessary information needed for the ranking of applications. The final ranked list of application is due May 22.

During the review period the overall good experience from last years SoC came to mind. Summaries from Miguel and Gervase describe remarkable different outcomes we can certainly learn from. Besides the diligent examination of applications we will work on some guidelines. These should help participants so that students find their way into the project and code its way into the product.

Posted at 01:20AM Mai 17, 2006 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  |