From d400b10282cb06278d679016e4e5c10cf537c604 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rishi Gupta Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:32:10 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Reword GSoC section of contributing.md. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 8a0d6d65a4..397d5dc01f 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -265,23 +265,22 @@ 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 and deadling and +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. Since the most -important part of your application is your contributors, building a -reputation for doing good work is best way to spend time now on having +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 did not!). Our +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). 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 -GSoC but are able to find funding for. Student expectations are the +GSoC but were able to find funding for. Student expectations are the 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 GSoC results are announced. +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-faq]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq