Audacity Google Summer of Code

Audacity is taking part in Google Summer of Code this year.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

In "Google Summer of Code" students make proposals for projects to work on
during the summer.  Audacity provides mentors to guide.  Google coordinates
and provides a small stipend.  Earlier this year we posted our project
ideas here: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/GSoC_Ideas_2021

We're experienced with Google Summer of Code having mentored 7 students in
2008 and 2009.  The GSoC format has changed for 2021, with a shorter 175 hr
project spread over ten weeks.  We have enough potential mentors for it
this year, plus it should be less demanding on mentor time with the shorter
duration, and we thought we'd try the new format out.

The response has been just phenomenal.  We had 256 students (well, almost
exactly - it was 258 at the high water mark) in our GSoC Discord to discuss
possible projects and to get up to speed on compiling Audacity.  From this
we got 89 actual completed final proposals submitted yesterday, the
deadline for submissions.  In those 89 pdfs there are some absolutely dire
proposals, spammy proposals; students who didn't read the instructions;
students who just cut and pasted text and thought that would do.  There are
also some gems.

Deciding between these top proposals and narrowing it down to just two is
going to be really tricky.  We're balancing how good/innovative for the
project the proposals are, and how convinced we are by the proposal that
the students will be able to get good results in the time.

What next?

Student projects that are going ahead will be announced in mid May.  Once
that happens, we're planning to encourage more communication from the
students about work in progress this year than we had in 2008 and 2009.  In
2008 and 2009 we just had project pages on our wiki, which probably few
people saw.  The ideas we are considering will make a big difference for
the better for Audacity, if they come through.  We're looking forward to
sharing more about GSoC as GSoC progresses.

--James.

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