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<strong>Be Early:</strong> We expect to receive 50 to 100 applications for five to eight spots. Applications which we get on the first day of the application period will get more attention from the mentors, and thus more chance of being accepted, than applications which show up on the last day.
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-<strong>Be Specific:</strong> Your proposal should include specific, well-defined deliverables and timelines. "Fix the query planner" is bad. "I expect to take 10 weeks implementing a new n-distict algorithm for better rowcount estimation and integrating it into the PostgreSQL planner." is good.
+<strong>Be Specific:</strong> Your proposal should include specific, well-defined deliverables and timelines. "Fix the query planner" is bad. "I expect to take 10 weeks implementing a new n-distinct algorithm for better rowcount estimation and integrating it into the PostgreSQL planner." is good.
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<strong>Be Bold:</strong> suggest innovative and ambitious approaches to solve hard
problems. Ultimately, we're looking for new major contributors for our