# Student guidelines for DragonFly Summer of Code



This page details some guidelines for students participating / planning to participate with DragonFly in Google's Summer of Code.



## Student Applications 




* Remember name, email, and a title for the project!


* List milestones and approximately when they can be reached.


* Describe what will be delivered in code by the end of the project.


* Describe prior experience with programming and the specific targets of this project.


* Plan for any hardware or software needed (See Student Resources below)



## Student Requirements 




* Students must have usable code by the  **midpoint**  of the Summer of Code work period.


* Students must have a schedule for their project that encompasses the entire work period.


* Students must maintain contact with a mentor and/or the project coordinator (Justin Sherrill) though the project period.



## Student Resources 




* Development accounts on leaf.dragonflybsd.org are available.  A public DSA key will be needed for an account.  See [this article](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/devcentral/article.html) for details.


* On IRC: #dragonflybsd on EFNet.


* This Wiki: documentation of progress and ideas.


* [[Main SoC 2009 page|docs/developer/gsoc2009]]
* [Main SoC 2008 page](http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/GoogleSoC2008)


## Other links 



Google has a nice wiki with plenty of information, including a studend/mentor howto:




* [Google SoC wiki](http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/WikiStart)


* [Google's student application FAQ](http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_student_apply)





Other projects have project pages that may provide helpful guidelines:




* [FreeBSD Application Guidelines](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html#proposals)


* [NetBSD Application Guidelines](http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-application.html)