What level of technical expertise is required to participate in GSoC?
The level that could reasonably be expected of better than average computer science degree students after their first year. Realistically, given that GSoC is competitive, we’d regard the minimum programming skill to be such that at least one programming project of 1000+ lines should have been completed as part of coursework. Applicants should mention at least one significant program they have completed on their application. If you don’t enjoy writing and debugging programs, don’t apply. We’re not expecting students to already be familiar with the speciality of sound processing for Audacity work, or with writing GUI code, or with audio file I/O, or with preferences etc etc. We are expecting somebody who will ‘have a go’ at any of those, calling on expertise from the team as appropriate.
