GSoC Pre-Application IRC Chats

Okay, potential GSoC students. By now you’ve hopefully settled on a project idea or are narrowing it down between a couple of choices, have gotten some feedback by sending your ideas to the wp-hackers list, and/or have talked to mentors in the #wordpress-gsoc irc channel. For the next 6 days, we’ll be holding scheduled irc chats with a rotating cast of WordPress mentors, who are all looking forward to talking with you and hearing a little more about you before they start rating applications. You can use this time to ask questions, get live feedback on your proposal and just show your face (read: irc handle) so the mentors know you are serious about wanting to work with WordPress this summer.

Format: each chat will be scheduled for an hour. Below is the schedule in UTC time (linked date/time goes to world clock site for easy local time translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization.). At the beginning of each chat, we’ll ask which students want to be speak. We’ll put them in a random order, and give each student 5 minutes. If we have enough time to give more, we will. You can direct your questions to a specific mentor, or to the mentors at large. When your time is up, please be respectful and let the other students have their turns. You can always talk more with mentors after the scheduled chat is over, as they’ll be lurking in the room all week until the application deadline on April 8.

The chat location is irc.freenode.net #wordpress-gsoc. If you are planning to attend a chat, please leave a comment on this post and link to your proposal (on your WordPress-powered blogblog (versus network, site)) so that mentors can look it over before you talk to them in irc.

Good luck!

#gsoc, #irc