[Soc-coordination] [GSoC Students] Pencils down date and other information

[Daniel Pocock]

On 16/09/13 00:42, Sukhbir Singh wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> First of all: thank you for sending your reports regularly!
>
> A couple of quick announcements:
>
> - As per the GSoC calendar [0], September 16 is the "suggested pencils
> down" date. It is recommended that you spend the last week to scrub
> code, write tests, improve documentation, etc. Or you can just continue
> working as you normally did -- both of the options are OK.
>
> [0] -
> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page
>
> - September 23 is the firm "pencils down" date. Your coding period ends
> and you have to submit the final evaluation by September 27 and then
> later submit the code samples to Google. We will tell you how to proceed
> when the time comes.

Just to clarify, there is no specific action (e.g. uploading code) that
the students must take before the deadline today?  The only thing that
the deadline implies is that they must not do any actual work after the
deadline?


> - The final report is to be submitted by September 23 (Monday) instead
> of the usual Friday deadline.
>
> In addition to your usual report, please include a 3-5 line summary
> about what you did and what you achieved. We will be using this summary
> for doing a global GSoC report for the Debian Project, so that the
> others can come to know what amazing stuff you worked on during the summer!
>
> If you have any questions, please ask here or in #debian-soc on
> irc.debian.org.
>