Create a do's and don'ts for GSoC #3

Create a do's and don'ts for GSoC #3BRL-CAD

Status: ClosedTime to complete: 100 hrs Mentors: Hardeep Singh Rai, HarmanpreetTags: artwork, guidelines, design, website

This is a follow-on task to https://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2014/5606080990150656

Every year we participate in the Google Summer of Code, we have to tell students about how to participate. There are a variety of tips and suggestions we repeatedly make.

This task involves coming up with a useful summary of things to do and not do when participating in GSoC. Note that there are three timeframes and the recommendations for each of those timeframes is different: 1) selecting an organization/project/topic, 2) creating a proposal, and 3) participation during GSoC.

You only need to cover one of them. We can create separate tasks for the other two or you can make sure your template is trivially extended by others.

References:

http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do.pdf
http://gtgnome.net/2012/04/advice-for-google-summer-of-code-students-gtg-experience/
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code/Application_Guidelines
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code/Acceptance
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code/Expectations
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page

Uploaded Work

File name/URL	File size	Date submitted
dos and donts.jpg	823.4 KB	December 22 2014 14:48 UTC
dos and donts.psd	2.7 MB	December 22 2014 14:49 UTC
dos and donts.psd	2.1 MB	December 22 2014 15:38 UTC
dos and donts.jpg	758.5 KB	December 22 2014 15:43 UTC
dos and donts.psd	2.1 MB	December 23 2014 11:14 UTC
dos and donts.jpg	739.5 KB	December 23 2014 11:36 UTC

Comments

Sfurti Dawleon December 14 2014 08:32 UTCTask Claimed

I would like to work on this task.

Harmanpreet on December 14 2014 08:33 UTCTask Assigned

This task has been assigned to Sfurti Dawle. You have 100 hours to complete this task, good luck!

Melange on December 18 2014 12:33 UTCTask Reopened

Melange has detected that the final deadline has passed and it has reopened the task.

Aditya Gulation December 20 2014 02:03 UTCTask Claimed

I would like to work on this task.

Sean on December 20 2014 03:23 UTCTask Assigned

This task has been assigned to Aditya Gulati. You have 100 hours to complete this task, good luck!

Aditya Gulation December 22 2014 14:49 UTCReady for review

The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.

Sean on December 23 2014 09:21 UTCwhich timeframe?

Aditya, notice that the task description identifies three different potential timeframes. Which is this supposed to address?

That said, this looks really nice! Your choice of color and layout really creates a nice balance.

The only issue I see is the specific language being used for the Do's and Don'ts. For example, "Be The Early Bird And Start." does not translate very well (highly euphemistic / colloquial). "Forge Codes." is rather awkward and could be misinterpreted along with "Work Individually."

Another minor nit-pick is that you have periods on some of them but not all of them. You also capitalize every letter except the "a" in "a Short". Suggest consistently making it all upper or lower.

Sean on December 23 2014 09:21 UTCTask Needs More Work

One of the mentors has sent this task back for more work. Talk to the mentor(s) assigned to this task to satisfy the requirements needed to complete this task, submit your work again and mark the task as complete once you re-submit your work.

Sean on December 23 2014 09:21 UTCDeadline extended

The deadline of the task has been extended with 2 days and 2 hours.

Aditya Gulation December 23 2014 11:32 UTCReady for review

The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.

Ishwerdas on December 23 2014 13:05 UTCTask Closed

Congratulations, this task has been completed successfully.