9-July-2014 Open Source Software Panel - Google Summer of Code & Code-In introduction
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This document provides information about Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in programs. It summarizes that Google Summer of Code is a program that provides stipends for university students to work on open source software projects over the summer. It outlines the goals of exposing students to real-world development, getting more open source code created, and helping projects bring in new developers. Google Code-in is a contest for younger students to earn certificates for introductory tasks related to open source projects.
9-July-2014 Open Source Software Panel - Google Summer of Code & Code-In introduction
- 2. Agenda ● Who am I? ● What is Google Summer of Code? ● What are the goals of the program? ● How does Google Summer of Code work? ● Google Summer of Code timeline ● Stipends ● Participating projects ● Useful links
- 3. Who am I? ● Carol Smith (carols@google.com) ● I've been at Google 8.5 years ● I have work as an administrative assistant, program manager, and now community manager and open source programs manager ● I have a degree from California State University, Northridge in journalism ● I'm a movie geek, bibilophile, and recreational century bicyclist
- 4. What is Google Summer of Code? Google Summer of Code is a program designed to encourage university student participation in open source software development.
- 8. What are the goals of the program? ● Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development ● Provide students in computer science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer ● Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g. Mailing list etiquette, distributed development, etc.)
- 9. What are the goals of the program? ● Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all ● Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers
- 10. How does Google Summer of Code work? ● Organizations apply and are chosen by Google ● Students submit project proposals to the chosen organizations, who then select student(s) and pair with mentor(s) from the org ● Students execute milestones laid out in their accepted project proposal during the summer ● Students are evaluated twice during the term ● Students are paid a stipend in exchange for passing each evaluation, and are sent a t-shirt at the end of the year if they submit their successful project code sample
- 11. Google Summer of Code timeline ● Early February: Organizations apply and are chosen by Google ● Early March: Student application period ● Late April: Accepted students announced on google-melange.com ● Mid May: Students begin coding ● Late June: Mid-term evaluations ● Late August: Final evaluations
- 12. Stipends ● Accepted students in good standing with their mentoring organizations will receive 500 USD shortly after coding begins. ● Students who pass their mid-term evaluations will receive 2250 USD shortly after the mid-term evaluations. ● Students who receive passing final evaluations will receive 2750 USD shortly after the final evaluation deadline.
- 13. Participating Projects ● Operating Systems ● Mobile, Portable, Handheld Devices ● Databases ● Programming Languages ● Video, Music, TV, and Photography ● Code Design, Development & Management ● Humanitarian Efforts ● Biology, Analytical Sciences, Health Care http://goo.gl/dhvPVn
- 14. Some Interesting Student Success Stories ● There was a GSoC student at CERN when they discovered the Higgs boson ● A GSoC student competed in the London summer olympics (in race walking!) ● Students have worked on projects for Twitter and Facebook in previous years ● 50 million lines of code produced by students in GSoC!
- 15. Useful Links ● Melange: http://www.google-melange.com ● Google Summer of Code discussion list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google- summer-of-code-discuss ● Google Summer of Code student manual: http://flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/
- 17. What is Google Code-in? ● Global, online contest for 13-17 year old pre-university students ● Introduction to open source software development ● 10 Open source organizations create tasks for students to work on ● Students earn certificates, t-shirts and can work toward Grand Prize trip to Google’s campus
- 18. Types of Tasks Each task is designed to take approximately the same amount of time to complete (about 3-5 hours) Categories of Tasks ● Coding ● Documentation/Training ● Outreach/Research ● Quality Assurance ● User Interface
- 19. Why participate in GCI? ● Apply classroom skills to real life OS projects ● Excite students about the many types of open source projects they can choose from ● Become part of the community ● Easy entry, mentors available to guide students ● OS software isn’t just about coding - variety of types of tasks to choose from
- 21. Timeline ● November: Contest starts, students can register at google-melange.com ● January: Contest Ends ● January: 20 Grand Prize Winners named ● Late Spring 2015: Grand Prize Trip to Google
- 22. Important Links google-melange.com Contest site - For rules, frequently asked questions, timeline Can register for the contest (beginning Nov 18th) To ask questions, join the discussion group at: http://groups.google.com/group/gci-discuss Manual for using the GCI site: http://flossmanuals.net/gci-melange/ More info: developers.google.com/open-source/gci