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Did you see Xavier's post in Melange to you?

On our side, they are 4 things we expect from students to be able to select them for a GSoC project and that we will take into consideration:

1) are you able to communicate with the community?
I don't expect you to know everything and you will need to ask questions and get clarifications, and update us on the progress

We are using two main tools:
- the forum http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/board,90.0.html
Please post (or update) your project proposal there if you haven't already, and post status update when you have finished  each of the next steps detailed bellow. If you try but get stuck somewhere, publish it too, being able to inform when things don't go well is as important as doing it when it runs smoothly

- the new stackexchange:
http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/
It will be the best place to ask for questions about civi, our tools or questions about your project (please use GSoC2015 as a tag)

If you have questions whilst doing the step below, please use it to get the answers

2) are you able to set up the environment needed to develop for civicrm?
Please install civicrm-buildkit and use it to get a working civicrm on your computer
https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-buildkit
It doesn't take a lot of time if you know composer, git and bower + the LAMP stack, if you don't have a working knowledge of these tools, schedule time to be able to finish that task.

I'd like you to get it working in the next few days.

3) are you able to use our git workflow?
We have a "dummy" extension, read the README and follow the steps to add your name
https://github.com/civicrm-gsoc/gsoc_candidate

I'd like you to get it working in the next few days.

4) Are you able to communicate well with you mentor?
During the duration of the project we expect you to write a super short update (few lines) daily in the forum so we know if we can help. However, you are going to spend time as well with your mentor, it's important that the communication is satisfying for both. Check with him/her about what media works best for you both (taken into account timezones) and try the communication channel before april 27.

As you can see, communication is key for a successful summer of code. If your project is successful, it might end up being used by nearly 10'000 websites. It means a lot of users, being sure they are aware it exists and get a chance offer you suggestions will help you deliver a better solution.

Also, have you been in communication with a potential mentor?