Requirements/templat for student applicants

[Anthony Sorace]

As part of the application process, we need to provide a template for students to use to apply to our org (provided we're accepted). I think what we used last year was good, but could use some improvement. In particular, I think we can up our average quality by culling students who aren't really serious (although there'll always be spammers who apply to everything).

Anthony

Some orgs require code samples. That's got merits, but it is a lot of up-front work for the student working on spec (it's mostly used by larger orgs). I'd suggest we instead target something that shows the student has and can work with the system - put your name in a world- writable file on sources, edit the wiki, or generate a patch (even if just to add your face). This works for Plan 9 and Inferno, and kinda for p9p. It seems to me that even if your project is on something else (Glendix, other 9P implementations) you ought to be able to work with one of those three. Thoughts? We need a decision in the next day or so. If nobody objects or has any other proposals, I'll do something like the above.

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