be rejected if you don't put in the time and effort to familiarize
yourself with the organization, their projects, and their community.
It doesn't matter how good of a programmer you are if you aren't even
interested enough (er, "don't have enough time") to take the time
necessary to get to know them and give them a chance to get to know
you.
That's why it's been repeatedly recommended that you approach just a
couple of organizations/projects that interest you. Get involved
early and show genuine interest. If it's just a summer job to you or
if you're too busy with other things, then you're not very interesting
at all no matter how good a coder you are.
Cheers!
Sean
On Mar 23, 9:31 am, 9a3eedi <the.9a3e...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a student, and I'm a rather busy one at that. I can't seem to get
> myself a lot of time to look at the mentor list and see what ideas are
> easy enough for me to implement. As I am a total newbie to real-world
> programming (and I'm willing to change that with this year's GSoC), I
> was getting worried that if I dont look at the mentor list/idea list
> much, I wouldn't be able to get involved with the project (submit bug
> patches to prove my potential, etc.), and as a result I might not get
> accepted.
>
> What are the odds of not getting accepted to a project if you don't
> familiarize yourself with an organization? Also, is anyone other than
> me experiencing this problem? how are you dealing with it?
>
> Thanks
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