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Our organization application for GSoC2011.

Direct link for the admin and backup admin: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org_app/take/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/orgapp?id=6292202

There is a bunch of homework that our organization must complete before we have a chance to be accepted: http://www.booki.cc/gsoc-mentoring/_v/1.0/

In particular, we need come up with a good "ideas" page and also have good answers to the following questions.

Note: The text formatting in our answers seems to get messed up completely, so don't bother with the line breaks here. It will be just plain text with arbitrary line breaks.

Describe your organization.

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.

Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2011? What do you hope to gain by participating?

tbd

Did your organization participate in past Google Summer of Codes? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.

In 2007, we participated and four students started to work with our project. However, the communication between the mentors and students didn't start too well, so some of the students disappeared relatively quickly. Two of the students got involved very well and they implemented interesting and useful new features of gnucash. In that case, the frequent reporting from the student to the mentor and a quick feedback from the mentor ensured a good progress of the report. This time, we will make sure all of the mentors allocate enough time on the mentoring task, especially in the beginning, so that the communication channels are set up on a good level.

If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the ratio of students passing to students allocated, e.g. 2006: 3/6 for 3 out of 6 students passed in 2006.

2007: 2/4

What license(s) does your project use?

GPLv2

What is the URL for your Ideas page?

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GSoC2011

What is the main development mailing list for your organization?

The main development mailing list is "gnucash-devel". The archive and subscription information of this list and of the other project lists is shown on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists .

What is the main IRC channel for your organization?

1. gnucash on irc.gimp.org

Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now.

Basic Information

Student name: Location (Home town, state, country):

Contact Information

Email: Instant messaging contact details (Skype or similar): Phone number (our mentors will ask for a few phone conversations, especially in the beginning):

Background/Programming Information

What programming experience do you have so far (languages, operating systems, compilers)? Have you worked on programming project(s) before, and which one(s)? What project in GnuCash would you like to work on? How do you propose to solve the problem(s) posed in the project you'd like to work on? Have you ever built an open source package from source? Have you ever built GnuCash from source?

Who will be your backup organization administrator?

Geert Janssens

What criteria did you use to select the individuals who will act as mentors for your organization? Please be as specific as possible.

tbd

What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

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What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?

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What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?

tbd