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@@ -265,15 +265,18 @@ students in summer 2017).  While we don't control how many slots
 Google allocates to Zulip, we hope to mentor a similar number of
 students in 2018.
 
-If you're reading this well before the application deadline and
-want to make your application strong, we recommend getting involved in
-the community and fixing issues in Zulip now. Having good contributions
-and building a reputation for doing good work is best way to have
-a strong application.  About half of Zulip's GSoC students for Summer
+If you're reading this well before the application deadline and want
+to make your application strong, we recommend getting involved in the
+community and fixing issues in Zulip now. Having good contributions
+and building a reputation for doing good work is best way to have a
+strong application.  About half of Zulip's GSoC students for Summer
 2017 had made significant contributions to the project by February
 2017, and about half had not.  Our
-[GSoC guide from last year][gsoc-2017] is mostly still accurate (with
-the exception that many of the project ideas are now completed).
+[GSoC project ideas page][gsoc-guide] has lots more details on how
+Zulip does GSoC, as well as project ideas (though the project idea
+list is maintained only during the GSoC application period, so if
+you're looking at some other time of year, the project list is likely
+out-of-date).
 
 We also have in some past years run a Zulip Summer of Code (ZSoC)
 program for students who we didn't have enough slots to accept for
@@ -282,7 +285,7 @@ same as with GSoC, and it has no separate application process; your
 GSoC application is your ZSoC application.  If we'd like to select you
 for ZSoC, we'll contact you when the GSoC results are announced.
 
-[gsoc-2017]: https://github.com/zulip/zulip.github.io/blob/master/gsoc-ideas.md
+[gsoc-guide]: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/gsoc-ideas.html
 [gsoc-faq]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq
 
 [1] Formally, [GSoC isn't an internship][gsoc-faq], but it is similar