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General information
This wiki page will be the central point for information about the Google Summer of Code 2018 at Debian.
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.
Debian has been selected as a mentoring organization for 2018! 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, SummerOfCode2014, SummerOfCode2015, SummerOfCode2016, SummerOfCode2017.
Ideas list / Participating / Applying
The list of proposed projects is available at: Projects.
I want to participate as student
Be sure you are eligible; check https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/rules/ 6.1 "Students Eligibility" for some of the rules.
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!
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 unfeasible 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.
I want to mentor (or co-mentor) a project in Debian
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 required 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.debian.org/debian-outreach/ All students and mentors are welcome to subscribe.
We're also on IRC: #debian-outreach 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.
Administrators
Name |
IRC nick |
Comment |
Molly de Blanc |
mollydb |
|
Alexander Wirt |
formorer |
|
Daniel Pocock |
pocock |
|
Jaminy Prabaharan |
Jaminy |
|
Pranav Jain |
PJain |
|
Mentors
see the Mentors page
Other Debian Outreach Team members
Name |
IRC nick |
Comment |
Laura Arjona Reina |
larjona |
I can help welcoming students and reviewing applications (e.g. ping students if their application is not complete and deadline approaching) |
Google timeline
Here are the next steps:
January 4 17:00 UTC |
Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google |
January 23 17:00 UTC |
Mentoring organization application deadline |
January 23 - February 11 |
Google program administrators review organization applications |
February 12 |
List of accepted mentoring organizations published |
February 12 - March 12 |
Potential student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations |
March 12 16:00 UTC |
Student application period begins |
March 27 16:00 UTC |
Student application deadline |
April 23 16:00 UTC |
Accepted student proposals announced |
Community Bonding Period |
Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects |
May 14 |
Coding officially begins! |
June 11 16:00 UTC |
Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 1 evaluations |
June 15 16:00 UTC |
Phase 1 Evaluation deadline |
Work Period |
Students work on their project with guidance from Mentors |
July 9 16:00 UTC |
Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 2 evaluations |
July 13 16:00 UTC |
Phase 2 Evaluation deadline |
Work Period |
Students continue working on their project with guidance from Mentors |
August 6 - 14 16:00 UTC |
Final week: Students submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation |
August 14 - August 21 16:00 UTC |
Mentors submit final student evaluations |
August 22 |
Final results of Google Summer of Code 2018 announced |
October |
Mentor Summit at Google |
The full timeline is available here.
Meta
Promotion
Organize the promotion of the Google Summer of Code 2018 at Debian here.
Flyers for 2018 can put on university bulletin boards, etc.
See also
Other paid internships and mentor opportunities are available.
To register in the web application, you need to create a profile on Melange. Then, you should request a connection with Debian to be added as a mentor.