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About un-answered e-mails

Many young professionals complain that their e-mails are not answered by their alumni members or they are ignored on Internet forums/mailing lists. Or when they apply for internship/job no company answers them.

Could it be that they chose a wrong kind of e-mail address.

A few tips Deepak Goel has on how to choose an email ID.

Yet another reason for your emails going un-answered may have to do with using SMS-speak or bad grammar in your e-mails. While it may possibly shorten the time for typing an e-mail it makes it relatively un-readable to busy professionals. Running your emails through a spell-check is a good idea.

Typing in ALLCAPS is considered the text equivalent of shouting.

And one shouldn't write e-mails with attached resumes to random people in random companies unless you have some relevant ideas as to what that company/organization does and if it fits well with what you want to do.

GNU project ideas for Google Summer of Code

Around march Google organizes Summer of Code targeted at students by funding Open Source Projects to enable them to pay interns who deliver on specific features/projects. GNU amongst many other OSS projects participates in the program.

From GNU GSoC project ideas page

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This page has the project suggestions for GNU's participation in Google Summer of Code 2008. Project proposals for 2006 and 2007 are archived separately.

STUDENTS - BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT PROPOSAL:

Please read the GNU Project's guidelines for Summer of Code projects.

Most importantly, please make sure you include all the information requested. If you have questions, please ask
summer-of-code@gnu.org.

</Quote>

PS: I am not connected to GNU, Google or GSoC

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