[SoC] OSGeo's GSOC 2017 - 1 week countdown to opening of student application period - what should be done?

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Dear OSGeo community, students,

* according to the Google Summer of Code 2017 Timeline [1]:

March 20 16:00 UTC 	Student application period opens
April 3 16:00 UTC 	Student application deadline

in 1 week student application period will be opened.

* Would-be proactive students:

read carefully the student's recommendations [2], screen the ideas page [3], join the project communities, introduce there yourself, your ideas and skills and discuss the exiting GSoC ideas with the communities.

* Mentors:

check if you're already on the mentors list [4]; if not, register you as mentor, write down the title of the idea which you will mentor, then you'll get an invitation by OSGeo GSoC admin team for GSoC. keep in mind, every project idea needs at least 2 mentors.

Happy coding!

The OSGeo GSoC Team

[1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Students
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Ideas
[4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative#Mentors