GSoC2012

Application template for the 2012 Google Summer of Code program

Personal Details

• Name
• Email
• Personal website
• Skype/GTalk ID
• IRC nickname
• Phone number

Skills

• School
• Years completed
• Anticipated graduation
• Academic performance (list relevant coursework taken and grades)
• Programming experience level
• D experience level
• If you participated to past D projects or others (preferably open source), include a brief description of each
• Also list any specific skills in the specific project area (classes taken, research conducted, blogs and publications etc.)
References (names and emails of up to four relevant professors, employers or collaborators)

Your Project

• One-sentence elevator pitch
• Detailed description
• How many hours per week do you expect to spend on the project?
• Your current progress on the idea—e.g. research, gathering information, concrete work if applicable
• Anticipated impact—if you implemented your idea to perfection, how will it have made the world a better place?
• Anticipated challenges
• Potential mentors

Major Milestones

Put together a broad project plan. What are the major deliverables that would mark progress in your work, and when do you plan on delivering them? For example:

• 06/01 Revise project plan with mentor, discuss strategy of approach
• 06/15 Mocks, small prototype available, finish research on the topic, begin coding
• 07/15 First reviewable code submitted implementing X, Y, and Z
• 08/15 Feature complete, review overall progress
• 09/01 Rule the world

Good luck!