[Dune-devel] Draft for GSoC application

[Christoph Grüninger]

Hi,
I am still not fully convinced that we have enough mentors and ideas to 
make a good GSoC application. But as I promised, I prepared everything 
for an application. Unfortunately, we have only two days left to apple 
(deadline February 21).
What do you think?

Please find attached my answers. If you have any improvements, please 
share them or send me a private mail. I am also locking for a second org 
admin. Who wants to do so?

Bye
Christoph

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"DUNE, the Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment is a modular 
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= Why does your organization want to participate in Google Summer of Code?=
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* Teach people that are skilled and willing how to contribute to open 
source. We public share our code and work as a community for almost 20 
years. Introducing more people into this world is marvelous.

* Being caught in everyday live, it becomes difficult to start new 
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= What would your organization consider to be a successful GSoC program?=
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* As many of our project members work as faculty in universities, we are 
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=How will you keep your GSoC contributors on schedule to complete their 
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If we see they
* take the wrong routes,
* that their original has a flaw, o
* that they are just behind schedule,
we have to ask them
* whether they need more or more specific help,
* to adjust their approach,
* to discuss with us,
* or simply to improve their effort (if we feel that lack of effort is a 
reason)."

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during GSoC?=
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* Encourage them to take part in discussions related and unrelated to 
their project.
* Not only mentors will provide feedback and answer questions on the 
mailing list or GitLab discussions.
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contribution would become one of the authors."

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