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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
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+
+We offer a wide range of possible projects to choose from. If you have an idea
+not listed here, we'd love to hear about it!
+
+In either case, we encourage you to contact us (on [[IRC]] and/or our developer
+[[mailing lists]]), so we can discuss your idea, or help you pick a suitable
+task -- we will gladly explain the tasks in more detail, if the descriptions
+are not clear enough.
+
+In fact, we suggest you discuss your choice with us even if you have no trouble
+finding a task that suits you: as explained in the introduction section of the
+[[student_application_form]], we ask all students to get into regular
+communication with us for the application to be considered complete. Talking
+about your project choice is a good start :-)
+
+(We strongly suggest that you generally take a look at the
+[[student_application_form]] right now -- the sooner you know what we expect,
+the better you can cater to it :-) )
+
+Many of the project descriptions suggest some "exercise". The reason is that
+for the application to be complete, we require you to make a change to the Hurd
+code, and send us the resulting patch. (This is also explained in the
+[[student_application_form]].) If possible, the change should make some
+improvement to the code you will be working on during the summer, or to some
+related code.
+
+The "exercise" bit in the project description is trying to give you some ideas
+what kind of change this could be. In most cases it is quite obvious, though:
+Try to find something to improve in the relevant code, by looking at known
+issues in the [Savannah bug tracker](http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=hurd);
+by running the code and testing stuff; and by looking through the code. If you
+don't find anything, try with some related code -- if you task involves
+translator programming, make some improvement to an existing translator; if it
+involves glibc hacking, make an improvement to glibc; if it involves driver
+hacking, make an improvement to the driver framework; and so on... Makes sense,
+doesn't it? :-)
+
+Sometimes it's hard to come up with a useful improvement to the code in
+question, that isn't too complicated for the purposes of the application. In
+this case, we need to find a good alternative. You could for example make an
+improvement to some Hurd code that is not directly related to your project:
+this way you won't get familiar with working on the code you will actually need
+for the task, but at least you can show that you are able to work with the Hurd
+code in general.
+
+Another possible alternative would be making some change to the code in
+question, that isn't really a useful improvement, while still making sense in
+some way -- this could suffice to prove that you are able to work with the
+code.
+
+Don't despair if you can't come up with anything suitable by yourself. Contact
+us, and we will think of something together :-)
+
+In either case, we strongly suggest that you talk to us about the change you
+want to make up front, to be sure that it is something that will get our
+approval -- especially if the idea is not directly taken from the project
+description.
+
+Also, don't let this whole patch stuff discourage you from applying! As
+explained in the [[student_application_form]], it's not a problem if you do not
+yet have all the necessary knowledge to do this alone -- we don't expect that.
+After all, the purpose of GSoC is to introduce you to free software development
+:-) We only want to see that you are able to obtain the necessary knowledge
+before the end of the application process, with our help -- contact us, and we
+will assist you as well as we can.
+
+See also the list of [Hurd-related X.org project ideas](http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Hurd_Porting).
+
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