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hi, pypy participated in GSoC 14 and my thesis mentor had the idea that it would benefit if I apply to GSoC 15 for my thesis. I'm currently planning my thesis and I think the application would be very similar to what is required to GSoC 15. Do you think that it would be worth trying? Best, Richard
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Hi Richard, In the past few years, we have found GSoC to be tricky to handle. As a result of this, we're likely to have a high bar for student acceptance this year. The main criteria will be whether you have already contributed to PyPy in a significant way. If you only come up with a GSoC proposal, no matter how cool, it will likely be rejected. The first step is to get involved with the community, which means showing up on irc (#pypy on irc.freenode.net). We can give you pointers to possible ideas there, or you can find your own, or you can look at http://bugs.pypy.org/. This is what we say in general to people that want to contribute to PyPy. We can move on to discuss GSoC only after we have seen concrete results from this first step. Armin Rigo
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Armin Rigo
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Richard Plangger