Hello,
My name is Aaron. I am writing this letter because I would like to enter my name consideration in your [possible specificity] project. I did not participate in the pre-application phase, which I know places me at a disadvantage, and as a result I am sending this email to probe your interest.
Your organization's participation in the Summer of Code is somewhat serendipitous for me. I had previously been communicating with the Qemu organization about the possibility of porting their software to additional platforms, but they were not receptive (possibly even planning to remove platform support). Porting qemu, is exactly what I've been wanting to do. I've also read through some of your mailing lists and I don't believe that anyone else is taking this task on.
With all of that said: are you willing to accept new candidates, or are you only selecting from those that have already communicated?
Thank you for any thoughts you might have,
Aaron Hudson
P.S.
I made the mistake of emailing the main gsoc@...489..., which has only exacerbated the issue. The message above was the original message sent to that mailing list.