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Google Summer of Code™ Organization Application

Thank you for signing up your organization with the Google Summer of Code.

About Your Organization

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What is your Organization's Name?
What is your Organization's Homepage?
Describe your organization.

Frugalware is a project to create a fast Slackware based Linux distribution aimed at intermediate users.
Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What do you hope to gain by participating?

We are applying to GSoC 2007 for several reasons. One of the things is to get some projects done that we don't have either time or knowledge to do by ourselves. We would also like to gain valuable experience by working with students, and would like them to become regular contributors, or who knows, perhaps even developers.
Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of your student projects. (optional)

No, we didn't participate.
If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)

No, we haven't applied in the past.
What license does your project use?

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
URL for your ideas page
What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)

No, we would like to see the individuality the student has, and make him come to IRC to talk with him so that we can gain a better idea of their personality.
Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)

alex.extreme2@gmail.com

About Your Mentors

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What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.

Preferably involvement with the subject to be mentored, professional background, experience, time spent with the project.
Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)

alex.extreme2@gmail.com, vmiklos@frugalware.org, priyankmg@gmail.com, christian.hamar@gmail.com

About The Program

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What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

We talked to SoC mentors from other projects for the previous years and learnt that disappearing students do happen. We will try to narrow down our students selection before by seeing how dedicated they are, how passionate they are about working on Frugalware. But of course such things always happen, and this year is not an exception. We will try to hold them as much as we can by slowly 'merging' them in our community, and if they disappear we will try to contact them by all means we have to avoid/resolve situations none of us would like.
What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?

It is unlikely that this will happen however if it does happen, we will have one of our other mentors stand in for them while they are away.
What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?

Close teamwork with others working on Frugalware, helping them to get involved and get going. We have several communication channels, and we will try to get him/her involved with our daily routine, which isn't only development, but jokes, talks, and all in all, to make him/her become a full member of our community.
What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?

We hope our open mind and the atmosphere will inspire them even after SoC ends that they will stay, and become valuable contributors and friends.

Thanks!

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