Florian Fuchs flo.fuchs@gmail.com via python.org
Apr 29

to soc2014-general
To all students who got accepted into GSoC 2014:

First of all: Congratulations!

My name is Florian, and I'm one of Terri's co-admins this year. I hope
you've had a good first couple of days into the program!

As you know you are required to give regular progress reports in the
form of posts to your blog. We've set up a timetable with deadlines:

1. Before mid-terms:
- - 05/18/14: End of the community bonding period
- - 06/01/14: Two weeks into coding - progress/roadblocks
- - 06/22/14: Mid-term summary (project progress since the start of the
program)

2. After mid-terms:
- - 07/13/14: Two weeks into 2nd half - progress/roadblocks
- - 07/27/14: Four weeks into 2nd half - progress/roadblocks
- - 08/17/14: Final Summary

For most of these updates, you are generally free to write whatever
seems important to you. You can tell your audience what you're
currently working on or where you are running into problems. Or write
about stuff you discovered or found interesting. You could also use
the first post to generally talk about your project and how you are
planning to approach it.

The two term-end summaries however should be used to take a step back
and give an overview of the overall progress of your project (that's
why you have a little more time for them).

It's really important that you don't miss these deadlines (they're a
requirement to pass). We know, most of you already send status reports
to your mentors or project mailing lists, but for us as PSF admins
it's really important to be able to keep track of your progress. Apart
from that: We're really interested in your work! We are coders just
like you and we want to know about the cool stuff that's going on
under the PSF umbrella!

Cheers and happy coding!
Florian