GSOC expectations

The following is expected from our GSOC students:

During the community bonding period

Ensure you've introduced yourself in our GSOC 2009 Introductions forum.
Attend an online orientation meeting on Tuesday 5 May.
Create a specification for your project in Moodle Docs and post in an appropriate Using Moodle forum asking for feedback.
Post in your blog about your project specification and/or your first impressions of the Moodle community. Please tag your entries 'moodle' and 'gsoc'.

Each week:

Refine your specification based on feedback from your mentor and the wider Moodle community.
Add subtasks to your tracker issue in roughly chronological order for all your project milestones.
Post your code as patches to tracker subtasks initially, then once CVS permission is granted, develop code in Moodle's CVS repository.
Post regularly in the forums to build a dialogue with the community. Advertise major milestones to maintain community interest and draw in new testers and more feedback.
Provide documentation in Moodle Docs.

Each week:

Post in your blog summarizing what you've been working on, any problems you've run into, and what you're planning to do next.
Have a meeting with your mentor.
Participate in the GSOC group chat.

In the final week:

Post in your blog a summary of your completed project.
Add a comment to your tracker issue with the download link to the code for your project.
Post in an appropriate Using Moodle forum to inform the community of your completed project.
Ensure that the user documentation for your project is complete.
Share your project code by adding an entry in the Modules and plugins database, including download, discussion and documentation links.