Hey, so the submission for this year's edition of GSoC is opening today. The GSoC proposals need to contain the idea what you want to do and when. This year is different from previous years in the sense that there are two checkpoints during the programme (it used to be only one) and a final fail/pass at the end. Timeline is here: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/ So the proposal needs a (detailed) plan, what you want to achieve until the respective evaluations on June 26th, July 24th and August 21st. All mentors for JBoss.org will look at the proposals and evaluate them, so you need to make it appealing „to everyone“. As a negative example: every year there are proposals coming in that (only) say „Take me“ or „I want to work with Jboss“. Those obviously don’t fly. The GSoC system should allow to put in a draft proposal that you can then discuss with the potential mentor(s). Have a look at the students handbook here: http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsocstudentguide/writing-a-proposal/ Also some projects in the Org like Hawkular expect that you have made at least a tiny contribution before the proposal submission deadline is over. -- Reg. Adresse: Red Hat GmbH, Technopark II, Haus C, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 14, D-85630 Grasbrunn Handelsregister: Amtsgericht München HRB 153243 Geschäftsführer: Charles Cachera, Michael Cunningham, Michael O'Neill, Eric Shander