<div dir="ltr">To clear up any misreading of my intent on that second piece of advice about submitting patches...<div><br><div>It really only applies to accepted students. Submitting patches, although a great thing to do for any project at any time, has no bearing on whether or not your proposal will be accepted by the mentoring organization. It just meant that the program administrators at google have consistently found that students who submit patches early on in their projects are highly correlated with students who get a passing grade at the end of the summer.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">David E DeMarle<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: 518-881-4909</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:58 AM, David E DeMarle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com" target="_blank">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:54 AM, saurabh bhadada <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saurabh.iitd02@gmail.com" target="_blank">saurabh.iitd02@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hey guys,</span><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I am Saurabh Bhadada 3rd year student of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. I'm interested to work on gsoc'15 project " improvements to earth and space science visualization". I have previously worked on OpenGL and I am proficient in c++. And I am learning VTK right now.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">please tell if i am suitable candidate.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Sure. Your background sounds sufficient. The fact that you are discussing things on the mailing list is a good indicator of success too. </div><div><br></div><div>More advice:</div><div>* If you work with the list and a project mentor your proposal is much more likely to be a good one and be chosen.</div><div>* Google SoC organizers say that across all projects, students who manage to submit even the tiniest patch (say fixing a typo in documentation for instance) to their mentoring organization early on are 90% more likely to get a passing mark than those who do not.<br></div><div><br></div><div>good luck</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Thank You</div><span><font color="#888888"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Saurabh Bhadada</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">3rd Year Integrated Mathematics and Computing</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">IIT Delhi.</div></font></span></div>
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