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key for the success - to carefully filter out wannabes and select really good students by giving them small but real tasks (probably some bugs to fix)
 
and second important thing - student should have some simple plan and mentor should ping him periodically
 
ofc, our wallet was quite small compared to Google's one, but it was still useful, and finally we've used about $700 per student
== Project Ideas==
and one more - using spamming on global (Hacker News, reddit, slashdot, some mailing lists, subject mailing lists) and on local (probably on foreign languages) - is a key for a broad attention and paycheck
 
ofc by spamming I mean writing short still useful articles
=== Create Wikibase powered version of Open Food Facts ===
and using this you probably can cover even more audience than GSoC
=== Gamification ===
as a bonus - you can invite all ppl, not just only students
=== Your idea ===
also even if it fails - it is useful expierence and raises your chances on the next GSoC
== Mentors ==
== Timeline ==
== Feedback from OFC ==
* Carefully filter out wannabes and select really good students by giving them small but real tasks (probably some bugs to fix)
* Student should have some simple plan and mentor should ping him periodically
* ofc, our wallet was quite small compared to Google's one, but it was still useful, and finally we've used about $700 per student
* using spamming on global (Hacker News, reddit, slashdot, some mailing lists, subject mailing lists) and on local (probably on foreign languages) - is a key for a broad attention and paycheck
** ofc by spamming I mean writing short still useful articles
* and using this you probably can cover even more audience than GSoC
* as a bonus - you can invite all people, not just only students
* also even if it fails - it is useful experience and raises your chances on the next GSoC