[summerofcode] What is appropriate for the SoC

[Brett C.]

To hopefully quell any more emails asking if a proposal is appropriate for the
SoC (Summer of Code is the acronym is not obvious to you), I am going to try to
answer that question here.  This is my own opinion and not an official one from
the PSF, so don't take it as written in stone.

Technically any open source project qualifies to be sent in as a proposal.  The
SoC has no specific requirement that a project be a certain type, just that you
be able to get a mentoring organization to take you on.

>From the perspective of the PSF, any project that would benefit the Python
community is reason to list the PSF as the requested mentoring organization.
What this means is that your application needs to be written to work with
Python (pure C libraries are fine as long as they are geared toward Python).
But the proposed project does not need to be specifically for the language.
Any application that is useful and written in Python or usable from Python is fine.

-Brett