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=== What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? ===
=== What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? ===
Invite them to IRC. Set clear expectations on the mininum frequency of emails (probably one every two or three days). Be nice and friendly to them.
Invite them to IRC. Set clear expectations on the mininum frequency of emails (probably one every two or three days). Be nice and friendly to them.
Depending on their interests and code submitted, students will be put in contact with maintainers/developers of packages for Octave (Octave-Forge packages). In this way we will promote further collaboration.
Depending on their interests and code submitted, students will be put in contact with maintainers/developers of packages for Octave (Octave-Forge packages). Octave community enjoys developers related to Academy and Industry and we believe that emergence of joint projects is not unlikely. This represents potential career opportunities for students and the ones that get involved with the community will be encouraged to continue their collaboration.


=== Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here. ===
=== Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here. ===
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