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 16. **What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?**
 
+    Before the program, we will encourage any students interested in working on ikiwiki to contact us.  We will advise them to create an account on the ikiwiki ikiwiki, look over the TODO items, add ideas of their own, and discuss existing ideas.  We will also help them set up their own ikiwikis, both for experimentation and for actual use.  We will suggest that students begin looking at the ikiwiki codebase and asking questions.
 
+    During the program, we would like all students working on projects to create a user page with an activity blog, and update that blog regularly with the status of their project.  We will accept incremental patches towards a feature, or support students who wish to create their own branch.
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+    After the program, we will continue to work towards integrating any projects that have not yet completed, and talk with students about their future plans regarding ikiwiki.  If the students have started using ikiwiki for their own wikis, as we hope they will after we encourage them to experiment with it, then they will likely have a vested interest in ongoing ikiwiki development.  Thus, we will encourage them to remain active by helping them become active and interested users.
 
 17. **What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?**