Google Summer of Code

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General information

This wiki page will be the central point for information about the Google Summer of Code 2015 at Debian. 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.

Debian has been selected as a mentoring organization for 2015! We want to make the experience even more exciting and fulfilling this year for the students, the mentors and the whole Debian community this year, so please join us!

You can find information about the previous years on SummerOfCode2006, SummerOfCode2007, SummerOfCode2008, SummerOfCode2009, SummerOfCode2010, SummerOfCode2011 SummerOfCode2012, SummerOfCode2013, and SummerOfCode2014.

Ideas list / Participating / Applying

The list of proposed projects is available at: Projects.

I want to participate as student

Debian has been picked as a mentoring organization! Now is a good time to start perusing our project ideas page, and to start engaging with potential mentors. Please join us on one of our communication channels and let us know what you would like to do!

You have until March 27th 2015 19:00 UTC to contact us and to apply on the Google Summer of Code application. But do not wait until last minute! The sooner you contact the mentor of the project you are interested in, the better.

Familiarize yourself with the communication tools of Debian:

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.

When applying, follow the instructions on the Student Application page.

I want to mentor a project in Debian

Call for mentors and projects: TBD.

Come see us on IRC or on the mailing-list mentioned below.

A practical mentoring guide can be found here.

Guidelines for GSoC Projects in Debian

Our mentors are strongly encouraged to provide prospective students with some small (i.e. that can be accomplished in at most a few hours) task related to the proposed project. This will help both the mentor and student decide if they are a suitable match for each other and the project. In the case that the Debian GSoC team has to rank projects, the results of this small task will also help give confidence in a project-mentor-student matchup.

Contact

We use the following mailing list: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination All students and mentors are welcome to subscribe.

We're also on IRC: #debian-soc in the OFTC network (irc.debian.org). Just drop in and ask your questions.

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

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

Melange linkid

IRC nick

Comment

Nicolas Dandrimont

olasd

olasd

Sylvestre Ledru

scilab

Sylvestre

Tom Marble

tmarble

tmarble

Mentors

Name

Melange linkid

IRC nick

Comment

Google timeline

Here are the next steps:

October 6 2014:

Program announced. Life is good.

February 9: 19:00 UTC

Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.

February 20: 19:00 UTC

Mentoring organization application deadline.

February 23-27:

Google program administrators review organization applications.

March 2: 19:00 UTC

List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2015 site.

Interim period:

Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.

March 16: 19:00 UTC

Student application period opens.

March 27: 19:00 UTC

Student application deadline.

Interim Period:

Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant.

April 13:

Mentoring organizations should have requested slots in Google Summer of Code 2015 site at this point.

April 15:

Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations.

Interim period

Slot allocation trades happen amongst organizations. Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant.

April 21:

First round of de-duplication checks happens; organizations work together to try to resolve as many duplicates as possible.

April 24:

All mentors must be signed up and all student proposals matched with a mentor - 07:00 UTC. Student acceptance choice deadline. IRC meeting to resolve any outstanding duplicate accepted students - 19:00 UTC #gsoc

April 27: 19:00 UTC

Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2015 site.

Community Bonding Period:

Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.

May 25:

Students begin coding for their Google Summer of Code projects; Google begins issuing initial student payments provided tax forms are on file and students are in good standing with their communities.

Work Period:

Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects.

June 26: 19:00 UTC

Mentors and students can begin submitting mid-term evaluations.

July 3: 19:00 UTC

Mid-term evaluations deadline; Google begins issuing mid-term student payments provided passing student survey is on file.

Work Period:

Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects.

August 17:

Suggested 'pencils down' date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc.

August 21: 19:00 UTC

Firm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google.

August 28: 19:00 UTC

Final evaluation deadline. Google begins issuing student and mentoring organization payments provided forms and evaluations are on file.

August 28: 19:30 UTC

Students can begin submitting required code samples to Google

August 31:

Final results of Google Summer of Code 2015 announced

October 24-25:

Mentor Summit at Google: Representatives from each successfully participating organization are invited to Google to greet, collaborate and code. Our mission for the weekend: make the program even better, have fun and make new friends.

The full timeline is available here.

Meta

Promotion

Organize the promotion of the Google Summer of Code 2015 at Debian here.

Flyers for 2015 can put on university bulletin boards, etc.