From 4f3f2a2af55561140fa8c329321ae90264ec7285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Abbott Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:41:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Add links to the GSoC guide from CONTRIBUTING.md. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index bb737b4adb..a3aaeec37a 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -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only during the GSoC application period, so if +you're looking at some other time of year, the project list is likely +out-of-date).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