Friday, May 9, 2025

Re: Feedback on GSoC 2025 Proposal Selection

Hi Rahul,

Sure, I have some feedback; I'll email it to you off-list, because it doesn't really
contain much transferable to other students :)

Best,
Marcus

On 5/9/25 3:40 PM, rahul pillai wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> First of all, congratulations to all those who got accepted for GSoC 2025 and good luck
> with your projects.
>
> This is a request for the mentors, I would like it if you could tell us what the
> differentiating factors were between the proposals of those which are accepted and those
> that didn't. I am aware there are limited spots but there must be something that made the
> winning proposals stand out from the rest of them. The answer would be really helpful for
> me as well as others who may try GSoC 2026.
>
> In my case, with the Array Processing Toolbox <https://github.com/Ashborn-SM/GSoC-
> Proposal/blob/main/latex/main.pdf> project proposal, I believe my shortfall was proposing
> an ambitious project without any interactions or getting any suggestions from the mentors,
> lacking contents in the proposal, and rushed all together at the end. If there's anything
> more please let me know.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> rahul pillai
>
>
>

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