On 4/23/2010 4:14 PM, Rahul Akolkar wrote:
<snap/> The ability to formulate a GSoC proposal and attract mentor(s) for it must be rewarded.
If original just means not going for one of the ideas proposed by a mentor for GSoC and exploring what's needed, including the issues in Jira and attracting a mentor, than this would be fine as a global factor I think. Perhaps I misunderstood what was meant by original idea.