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General information

This wiki page will be the central point for information about the Google Summer of Code 2009 at Debian. Feel free to add missing sections to it.

You can find information about the previous years on SummerOfCode2006, SummerOfCode2007 and SummerOfCode2008.

Introduction

The Google Summer of Code is a program where Google pays students stipends to work over the summer on free software projects such as Debian. Each student works with one or more mentors from the community to complete a software project.

The Google Summer of Code has started again this year. If we're selected as a mentoring organisation, 2009 will be the fourth participation of Debian in the program and we want to again improve on our participation to make the experience even more exciting and fulfilling this year for the students, the mentors and the whole Debian community.

Timeline

Here are the next steps:

  • February 8: Program announced. Life is good.
  • March 9: ~12 noon PST / 19:00 UTC Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.
  • March 13: 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC Mentoring organization application deadline.
  • March 18: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2009 site.
  • March 18-23: Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.
  • March 23: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC Student application period opens.
  • April 3: 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC Student application deadline.

The full timeline is available here.

I am a student

You can't apply yet (you will be able to at the end of March) but you can do a lot.

First familiarize yourself with the communication tools of Debian:

  • IRC on general or team development channels

  • the general and particular Mailing-lists of various teams

  • this wiki

Join the communication channels of the teams or persons involved with the subject you would like to work on and discuss it. Don't be afraid to suggest seemingly crazy or vague ideas, we'll help you and give you suggestions. If you're lost (or even not!), drop in the communication channels of the Summer of Code team mentioned below. Remember that early preparation is a guarantee that your proposal will be better!

There is some interesting introductory documentation on this wiki about what Debian is and what Debian is for a developer. A lot of information about being a Summer of Code student can be found on the Advice for students page.

We also have a template that we would recommend students to use for their application: ?application template

I am a Debian developer

Your help is much needed from general organization to individual mentoring. Come see us on IRC or on the mailing-list mentioned below.

If you have an idea proposal, come discuss it with us or put it directly on this wiki if you're sure of its viability.

This year, we want to improve the communication between Summer of Code projects and the whole Debian community during the whole Summer of Code program, from student/project selection to final code integration into production through testing and feedback.

A lot of information can be found on the Advice for mentors page.

Mailing-list, IRC, Twitter and identi.ca

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination

We're also on IRC: #debian-soc in the OFTC network (irc.debian.org). Just drop in and ask your questions. Of course you can also ask in other Debian IRC channels.

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DebianGSoC or on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/debiangsoc

The Google's Summer of Code general IRC channel is #gsoc in Freenode.

Projects

Map of Debian

Here will be a map of areas in Debian where proposals are requested/accepted.

A good place to start looking for teams and areas is : http://www.debian.org/intro/organization

Project proposals

Here will be a list of proposals, sorted according to the map above.

Packaging

Debian Installer

Hardware support

Blends

Bug tracking

Building infrastructure

Archive

  • Debtags Archive Integration: Integrate Debtags into the Debian Infrastructure and the required tools to replace the current archive sections.

KDE

* Your proposal here [?SummerOfCode2009/SampleProposal]: Use this proposal as a sample.

Crew

Please add yourself to the relevant tables, preserving alphabetical order of the last names. To get a 'linkid', register on the GSoC web application.

Administrators

Name

linkid

Comment

SteveMcIntyre

einvalsledge

primary admin for Google

ObeyArthurLiu

arthurliu

backup admin for Google

Mentors

Name

linkid

Comment

Daniel Baumann

danielbaumann

Debian Live

OlivierBerger

olberger

Eclipse/Mylyn

?DanielBurrows

apt, dpkg and aptitude related projects

OndrejCertik

certik

LukClaes

luk

buildd infrastructure, release related

DirkEddelbuettel

edd

cran2deb (GSoc2008) followup, RQuantLib, ...

?TollefFogHeen

tfheen

Multiarch, Debian installer

CharlesPlessy

plessy

DebianMed, large data packages

ErichSchubert

erich

ManojSrivastava

srivasta

co-mentor, security

?MichaelVogt

apt, python-apt, dpkg, synaptic

SamuelThibault

sthibaul

AndreasTille

Debian Blends

?BastianVenthur

bventhur

Debbugs SOAP interface and/or web interface

WouterVerhelst

 wouter

FrancescoLovergine

frankie

?

Debian Boot

Meta

Promotion

Organize the promotion of the Google Summer of Code 2009 at Debian here.

A flyer has been made, feel free to make additional translations:

Color

Black/White

English

PDF (source)

PDF

French

PDF (source)

PDF

Spanish

PDF (source)

PDF

This flyer can be put on university bulletin boards, etc.