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your proposal **better**, by not reading everything are reducing your chances
of getting your proposal accepted.

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# Finding a "Idea" to work on

Due to the TimVideos project being made up of
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### Using Labels to Filter


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# Fixing your first bug

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things set up.


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# How to ask for help

Google Summer of Code will require you to work independently and hence showing independent investigation and troubleshooting skills **is a must**. We definitely encourage asking questions of the mentors but you must demonstate researching the question.
Google Summer of Code will require you to work independently and hence showing
independent investigation and troubleshooting skills **is a must**. We
definitely encourage asking questions of the mentors but you must demonstrate
researching the question.

The following is **bad** example. It demonstrates no research or thinking. The response to this question will be a link to this page!
The following is **bad** example. It demonstrates no research or thinking. The
response to this question will be a link to this page!

> Hi
>
> I'd like to work on "[HDMI2USB #14] Supporting Marvell Ethernet chip on Digilent board" project, please guide me.
>
> Potential GSoC student, Tim 'mithro' Ansell
The following is a **good** example. It demonstrates research and thinking about the issue and more in depth questioning.
The following is a **good** example. It demonstrates research and thinking
about the issue and more in depth questioning.

> Hi
>
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Often the best way to ask questions is to start writing your Google Summer of Code proposal as documented in the [Writing Proposals](#writing-proposals) section and find out what areas you are getting stuck at.


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# Frequency Asked Questions (FAQ)

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As developer time is limited, we ask everyone post their messages to the public mailing list or IRC channel (read http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate for a more detailed explaination).

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# Writing Proposals
**Feel free to submit multiple proposals.**
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* Group project proposed. Google has specified that groups MAY NOT participate. Individuals only.
* Proposer is not a student. Google has specified this as a requirement of the GSoC program.

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# Ideas

You can find our ideas list on the [[Ideas]] page. The list is not definitive and any student is more than **welcome to come up with their own idea** to work on. **Initiative is a skill which will rate highly** when selecting projects. Feel free to come up with your own projects.

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# Mentors

Please see the [[People]] page.

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# Where to Ask Questions

* Join the [mailing lists](https://github.com/timvideos/getting-started/wiki#the-projects) for the projects you are interested in.
* Join the IRC chat channel [#timvideos on irc.freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.org/#timvideos).

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# Thanks

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