Hi, it's great to see that there are so many students who express interest in working on pygame related tasks during the Google Summer of Code. Unfortunately, as Rene already mentioned in another mail, it is unlikely that we will get more than two or three mentoring slots and thus students to work with (and probably we will be even lucky if we get two or three slots :-). Thus, it is explicitly recommended that you do not focus on pygame only. The majority of those who are interested are unlikely to be chosen and if you apply to multiple projects (e.g. two or three), chances that one of them will pick you are much higher. So do not limit yourself to pygame only, but you might also want to look at other related projects, such as PySoy, the Python core itself, SDL or one of the other 148 organisations and their projects and tasks. If you did not do that already, now would be the time. Now for some pygame-specific hints: * talk to us * once more: talk to us, send us an email, if you are unsure about how to apply correctly or whom to ask for specific advises, send us your applications, do not be shy, you won't be laughed at(*) * if you are also applying for other projects and organisations, it would be nice to drop us (or the specific mentor, if mentioned) a short note about that. When it comes to choosing projects, we can then easily get back to you and the other organisations and sort things out, so that you do no end up without any task to work on * think about what is interesting for _you_. Some of the ideas do not require much to comment on, but to flesh out the details only, some require you to ask as they are pretty unspecific. All of them should require you to put some thought into it and come up with what you think might be interesting to do on that task. Especially the AI stuff is a candidate that requires you to come up with ideas that might be of interest for all, but mainly you as you have to spend three months on it ;-) * bring up own ideas, if you have any. They will be discussed, maybe accepted, maybe not - but they will not left unheard. Do not limit yourself to the ideas list only. If you think, task XY might be worth, bring it up (yes, even the GUI proposal was and is good to be brought up!) * if no specific mentor is mentioned for a task it does _not_ mean that the task will not be worked on. It just means that noone of the mentors claimed to take over that task already. Thus, things like the sprite and scene system are of interest for us and won't be easily rejected. If your application for them is so amazingly outstanding, one of us will take it later on. In any case we or at least one of us will comment on it * even if several people expressed interest for a certain task, that does not mean it is not available anymore (hello pygame math and the thre quadrillion people interested :-). But the more people want to work on a specific task, the higher the requirements will be. This is not for keeping you away from the task, but we would like to have passionate students working on their tasks as this means the biggest fun for all of us, mentors and students, and the biggest outcome for that task. Thus, read the next item on this list, too * if you are interested in several tasks, apply for them. You are not limited to applying for one task only. But be aware that you should have an idea about what to do for each of the tasks (*) except it is extraordinary funny Regards Marcus
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