GSoC Proposals: Level of Detail

[Fawzi Mohamed]

On 8-apr-11, at 15:40, dsimcha wrote:

> I've been looking over some of the GSoC proposals and I've noticed  
> that most aren't very detailed.  It seems most of the students have  
> only a very rough idea of what they want to do and plan on filling  
> in the details at the beginning of the project.  I don't have  
> experience with GSoC and I'm trying to understand whether this is a  
> problem or is what's expected.  How detailed are the proposals  
> supposed to be?

I don't have experience with GSoC either, but I fear that the very  
simple "I would like to work on X" proposal will have to be discarded.
As andrei said the students have to convince us that they can do the  
project, and this means:
- good project
- knowledge of the field
- knowledge of the tools (D)
- skills
- motivation

Obviously projects don't have to be perfect, this is *before* doing  
it, but just saying "I would like to work on X" is not going to cut it.

Fawzi