GSoC Proposal Template for Contributors.

[0904-mansi]

Hey Mentors!!
I am going to raise a point on behalf of all the GSOC contributors to the CNCF organization as a contributor that there should be a template for students to write the GSOC proposal. As some of us are beginners and do not know how to write proposals to increase the chances of selection. Some organizations have their own template/format for writing a proposal. It would be great if CNCF also had its own template for writing proposals.
Thank you!

[hamees-sayed]

I have actually asked mentors and they said to follow google's official template:

https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal
https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/proposal-example-1.html

[0904-mansi]

I have actually asked mentors and they said to follow google's official template:

https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/proposal-example-1.html

Ok Thank @hamees-sayed

[prondubuisi]

I have this Repo with some sample proposals, hopefully this helps https:/prondubuisi/accepted-gsoc-proposals

[0904-mansi]

I have this Repo with some sample proposals, hopefully this helps https:/prondubuisi/accepted-gsoc-proposals

Thanks @prondubuisi :)

[nate-double-u]

I think it is still important to discuss if the CNCF should have templates, and if so, we can use this issue to track the work.

[0904-mansi]

I think it is still important to discuss if the CNCF should have templates, and if so, we can use this issue to track the work.

Why not, we can continue:)

[Nandini99-git]

can I contribute in this ?.

[aliok]

While we can definitely have a template that's specific to CNCF, we might simply share a good proposal of a CNCF project for inspiration.

My thinking:

• We should find a good proposal from earlier sessions of the program, and the original idea for it from the ideas page
• We should ask the applicant for their permission to share
• We should also check with Google if they are ok with us sharing a proposal

[aliok]

I asked opinions of other mentoring applications (closed Google group called google-summer-of-code-mentors-list) and here are some ideas:

• Zulip asks applicants to post their proposals to a chat channel for feedback. This means, proposals from previous years are available as a reference.
• Python publishes the accepted proposals here: https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/. Candidates can have a look at there to see proposals that are accepted.

I think we can ask contributors from previous years for their permission to publish their proposals. At least, a few selected ones.

For this year, though, I believe we're already too late.

I assign this task to myself and I will target having something for GSoC 2024.

[prondubuisi]

If we get some proposals published, I am happy to add them here @aliok , thankss