April 2013 archive
GSoC 2013
April 9, 2013
GSoC has just announced the list of participating organisations. This is a great opportunity for students to get involved in projects that matter, and to learn about code development which is bigger than the standard "one semester" programming project that they are usually exposed to at university.
Some statistics:
- 177 of 417 projects were accepted, which is a success rate of 42%.
- 40 of the 177 project are accepted for the first time, which is a 23% proportion of new blood.
These seem to be in the same ballpark as most other competitive schemes for obtaining funding. Perhaps there is some type of psychological "mean" which reviewers gravitate to when they are evaluating submissions. For example, consider that out of the 4258 students that applied for projects in 2012, 1212 students got accepted, a rate of 28%.
To the students out there, please get in touch with potential mentors before putting in your applications. You'd be surprised at how much it could improve your application!