<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Vicky,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the additions! :)</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 9:01 PM Vicky Vergara <<a href="mailto:vicky@georepublic.de">vicky@georepublic.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr">Hello Community<br><br>I would like a small summary about the difference between last year and this year:<br><br>What are the changes for 2021 from 2020?</p><ol><li><b style="font-size:large">Smaller project size</b><b style="font-size:large"> - </b><font size="3">all students participating in the 2021 program will be working on a <span style="text-decoration-line:underline">175 hour project </span>(instead
of a 350 hr project). <br>Reasoning from GSoC administrators:<br></font></li></ol><ul><li>Currently
we are missing out on many wonderful students who could never commit to
such a huge project and time commitment but would be great contributors
to your community. This is a significant change as we now are no longer
strongly encouraging students to focus only on GSoC over their summer.
Students have many other responsibilities especially during the pandemic
that make it hard for them to spend 30 hours a week on a project. </li><li><font size="2">We
realize this is going to require all of you to think about smaller
projects and update your project ideas.</font></li></ul><ol><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><b><font size="4">2 evaluations (instead of 3)</font></b>
- There will be an evaluation after 5 weeks and the final evaluation
will take place after the 10th week. We are also no longer requiring
students complete their first evaluation (though we encourage them to do
so), so if a student doesn’t complete the first evaluation they will
not automatically be removed from the program. They are still required
to complete the final evaluation.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><b><font size="4">Eligibility requirements</font></b>
- In 2020 there are many ways students are learning and we want to
acknowledge that so we will be allowing students who are 18 years old
AND currently enrolled (or accepted into) a post-secondary academic
program as of May 17, 2021 or have graduated from a post-secondary
academic program between December 1, 2020 and May 17, 2021 to apply to
the GSoC program.</p></li></ol><ul><li>What this means
is that now the program will be open to folks participating in a variety
of different academic programs, not just accredited university
programs. This includes licensed coding camps, community colleges, and
many other programs that may not be accredited yet but are
post-secondary academic programs. <br></li></ul></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Regards<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Vicky Vergara<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">GSoC Mentor since 2015</div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre>Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
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