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key for the success - to carefully filter out wannabes and select really good students by giving them small but real tasks (probably some bugs to fix)
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and second important thing - student should have some simple plan and mentor should ping him periodically
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ofc, our wallet was quite small compared to Google's one, but it was still useful, and finally we've used about $700 per student
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== Project Ideas==
and one more - using spamming on global (Hacker News, reddit, slashdot, some mailing lists, subject mailing lists) and on local (probably on foreign languages) - is a key for a broad attention and paycheck
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ofc by spamming I mean writing short still useful articles
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=== Create Wikibase powered version of Open Food Facts ===
and using this you probably can cover even more audience than GSoC
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=== Gamification ===
as a bonus - you can invite all ppl, not just only students
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=== Your idea ===
also even if it fails - it is useful expierence and raises your chances on the next GSoC
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== Mentors ==
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== Timeline ==
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== Feedback from OFC ==
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* Carefully filter out wannabes and select really good students by giving them small but real tasks (probably some bugs to fix)
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* Student should have some simple plan and mentor should ping him periodically
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* ofc, our wallet was quite small compared to Google's one, but it was still useful, and finally we've used about $700 per student
 +
* using spamming on global (Hacker News, reddit, slashdot, some mailing lists, subject mailing lists) and on local (probably on foreign languages) - is a key for a broad attention and paycheck
 +
** ofc by spamming I mean writing short still useful articles
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* and using this you probably can cover even more audience than GSoC
 +
* as a bonus - you can invite all people, not just only students
 +
* also even if it fails - it is useful experience and raises your chances on the next GSoC

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