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= Google Summer of Code 2017 =
= Google Summer of Code 2017 =


{{Admon/tip | ''Students and mentors, please subscribe to the {{fplist|summer-coding}} mailing list, if you are not already subscribed.''}}  
{{Admon/tip | ''Students and mentors, please subscribe to the {{fplistfull|summer-coding}} mailing list, if you are not already subscribed.''}}  
 
This wiki page serves as the GSoC portal. Please feel free to contact us via {{fplistfull|summer-coding}} list for clarifications and more information. You can also use the IRC channel, {{fpchat|#fedora-summer-coding}}.
 
== What can I do today? ==
 
Fedora has been accepted as a mentoring organization.  Student applications open on 20 March.
 
* Students
** If you're interested in working on an existing project, read up on the project and the related technology.  There is no need to contact the mentor unless you have a specific question about the project.  Don't send "I'm interested" email.
** If you're interested in proposing your own project start looking around the Fedora Project for a mentor and send your idea to the mailing list or post it on the wiki.
 
Students may also wish to start working on the Fedora specific parts of the application (see the application section)


This wiki page serves as the GSoC portal. Please feel free to contact us via {{fplist|summer-coding}} list for clarifications and more information. You can also use the IRC channel, {{fpchat|#fedora-summer-coding}}.
* Mentors


If you're interested in working with a student you should post your idea to the idea page.


== Students ==
== Students ==
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You should know that contributing to FOSS doesn't require you to have super programming skills, or super-anything else. You just need be interested, curious, and willing to become comfortable being productively lost. This is the state of learning.  You learn by finding your way around and figuring things out with the support of your mentor and the community.
You should know that contributing to FOSS doesn't require you to have super programming skills, or super-anything else. You just need be interested, curious, and willing to become comfortable being productively lost. This is the state of learning.  You learn by finding your way around and figuring things out with the support of your mentor and the community.


=== Step-by-step guide for students===
=== Student Responsibilities ===
Please read and follow the [[GSOC_Guide_students|step-by-step guide for students]].
 
You are the key ingredient for your project's success. This project is important to you, your mentor, and the entire Fedora Community.
 
Your responsibilities include:
 
* Communicating early and often with your mentor.
* Blogging every week about what you're learning, how you're doing, challenges and successes.  This is key way to keep the entire Fedora Community informed.
* Working with your mentor on realistic achievable milestones that provide for regular deliverables and feedback.
* Attending a brief monthly student call
* Being accountable for your success and your actions


=== Student Application ===
=== Student Application ===
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* Being an interface for an identified sub-project or SIG in Fedora.
* Being an interface for an identified sub-project or SIG in Fedora.
* Helping students communicate with the overall project and any upstream.
* Helping students communicate with the overall project and any upstream.
* Helping the student plan realistic achieveable milestones that provide for regular deliverables and feedback.
* Helping the student plan realistic achievable milestones that provide for regular deliverables and feedback.
* Regular communication with your student.  This means you must be regularly available for the entire project.  If you take a holiday you need to know early and help your student be ready for your brief absence.
* Regular communication with your student.  This means you must be regularly available for the entire project.  If you take a holiday you need to know early and help your student be ready for your brief absence.
* Attend a brief monthly mentors call.
* Attend a brief monthly mentors call.
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== Communication ==
== Communication ==
* '''Mailing List (GSoC-related) :''' {{fplist|summer-coding}} <br/>
* '''Mailing List (GSoC-related) :''' {{fplistfull|summer-coding}} <br/>
* '''Mailing List (Technical) :''' {{fplist|devel}}<br/>
* '''Mailing List (Technical) :''' {{fplistfull|devel}}<br/>
* '''IRC :''' Channel - {{fpchat|#fedora-summer-coding}} or {{fpchat|#fedora-devel}} on Freenode
* '''IRC :''' Channel - {{fpchat|#fedora-summer-coding}} or {{fpchat|#fedora-devel}} on Freenode


 
== Timeline (Abbreviated) ==
== Timeline (Student version) ==
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* Reference: [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline Full Timeline]
* Reference: [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline Full Timeline]
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* '''Status :''' Open for Ideas <br/>
* '''Status :''' Open for Ideas <br/>
* '''Link :''' [[Summer coding ideas for 2017]]
* '''Link :''' [[Summer coding ideas for 2017]]
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We encourage students to provide creative yet useful ideas towards the Fedora Project as well. Please use  
We encourage students to provide creative yet useful ideas towards the Fedora Project as well. Please use  
[[Summer_coding_ideas_for_2016/Students_Idea|Student Idea]] page to note your idea. The idea will be moved to the original idea page once the idea is picked by a mentor.
[[Summer_coding_ideas_for_2016/Students_Idea|Student Idea]] page to note your idea. The idea will be moved to the original idea page once the idea is picked by a mentor.
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== Policy on proposal submissions on non-related project ideas ==
== Policy on proposal submissions on non-related project ideas ==
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This will not restrict submitting proposals on students ideas, we always welcome novel and innovative ideas from students if they follow the right path. As the first step send us your idea and will start discuss how to manage it. If you have a supporting mentor for your own idea please feel free to submit it directly to Google-melange and clearly note the mentors' contact details.
This will not restrict submitting proposals on students ideas, we always welcome novel and innovative ideas from students if they follow the right path. As the first step send us your idea and will start discuss how to manage it. If you have a supporting mentor for your own idea please feel free to submit it directly to Google-melange and clearly note the mentors' contact details.
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== Links ==
== Links ==
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== Administration ==
== Administration ==
In order to clarify matters and/or obtain more information related with this year's GSoC with Fedora, please contact the administrators directly (please consider CCing the summer-coding list where ever possible).
In order to get questions answered or obtain more information related to this year's GSoC with Fedora, please contact the administrators directly (please consider CCing the summer-coding list where ever possible).


# [[User:Bex|Brian (bex) Exelbierd]]
# [[User:Bex|Brian (bex) Exelbierd]] (Primary)
# [[User:Spot|Tom Calloway]]
# [[User:Spot|Tom Calloway]] (Secondary)


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Google Summer of Code 2017

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Students and mentors, please subscribe to the summer-coding@lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list, if you are not already subscribed.

This wiki page serves as the GSoC portal. Please feel free to contact us via summer-coding@lists.fedoraproject.org list for clarifications and more information. You can also use the IRC channel, #fedora-summer-coding[?].

What can I do today?

Fedora has been accepted as a mentoring organization. Student applications open on 20 March.

  • Students
    • If you're interested in working on an existing project, read up on the project and the related technology. There is no need to contact the mentor unless you have a specific question about the project. Don't send "I'm interested" email.
    • If you're interested in proposing your own project start looking around the Fedora Project for a mentor and send your idea to the mailing list or post it on the wiki.

Students may also wish to start working on the Fedora specific parts of the application (see the application section)

  • Mentors

If you're interested in working with a student you should post your idea to the idea page.

Students

Do you want to contribute to one of the world's leading and innovative Linux distributions? GSoC could be your chance. Please refer to the material below and start contacting mentors.

Why spend your summer working on FOSS?

When you work in the open on free software, you create a body of work that follows you for the rest of your life. Rather than a coding assignment done by thousands of other students and relegated to the bottom of the drawer at semester's end, working in FOSS is a chance to contribute to a living project.

Working in FOSS gives you a chance to:

  • Work with real-world, large codebases.
  • Collaborate with real engineers and other professionals.
  • Contribute to something meaningful while learning and earning.
  • Learn tools and processes that are just like what you are going to use if you work in technology after graduation.
  • Make friends and contacts around the globe.
  • Attract attention that can lead to an internship or job after graduation.
  • Create lifetime connections and associations.

Why work with Fedora?

Our project is large and diverse. We are very experienced at working with new contributors and helping them be successful.

Many of our contributors are long-time contributors. They remain because they want to keep growing the project and to lend their expertise, advice and mentoring to you! People who stay around the community and do good work are noticed. They get hired for jobs from it, including being hired by Red Hat. Past Google Summer of Code students were hired by Red Hat, as well as interns in various positions. This is just an example, as experience and reputation in the Fedora Project communities is influential in your career in many ways.

As a long-standing community with many facets, it is possible for you to find many rewarding sub-projects to work on.

You should know that contributing to FOSS doesn't require you to have super programming skills, or super-anything else. You just need be interested, curious, and willing to become comfortable being productively lost. This is the state of learning. You learn by finding your way around and figuring things out with the support of your mentor and the community.

Student Responsibilities

You are the key ingredient for your project's success. This project is important to you, your mentor, and the entire Fedora Community.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Communicating early and often with your mentor.
  • Blogging every week about what you're learning, how you're doing, challenges and successes. This is key way to keep the entire Fedora Community informed.
  • Working with your mentor on realistic achievable milestones that provide for regular deliverables and feedback.
  • Attending a brief monthly student call
  • Being accountable for your success and your actions

Student Application

Please read and follow the student application process.

Mentors

Want to help the next generation of contributors grow? Want to bring new contributors to Fedora? Want to advance your projects along their roadmap? GSoC can be a chance to do all of this.

The contributors of the Fedora Project can propose ideas and mentor them. Please feel free to check following links and please add your ideas to the main idea page. Furthermore, if you are not interested in proposing an idea but still want to support the program, please check the students' idea page and pick one as per your interest. Lastly, consider becoming a Supporting Mentor and helping students across projects.

  1. Manual on Mentoring
  2. Main Idea Page and Supporting Mentor List

How to work with students

  • One way is to provide an idea for students to work on. This idea might be very well planned out, in which case you may need a high-level of contact with the student to get it implemented correctly. Other ideas may be more general and require more planning during onboarding.
  • It is harder to find success when you are completely certain of how an idea needs to be implemented; finding a student with the skills and interest to implement a specific solution is a lot harder than finding a student with enough skills to respond to a use case need. Also, students learn more when they help design and guide the project. In other words, provide guidance and direction but let the student do some of the "driving."
  • Where you can have looser ideas, you may be able to find a student who works as a sort-of intern who can implement a solution to a use case you have. In past experiences, students going after a use case are more likely to get somewhere with self-direction and support from you.
  • You may also want to work with a student who brings an idea to your sub-project. This requires a different level of communication throughout the project, but can be the most rewarding.

Mentor responsibilities

You are an essential part of the student's success, the project's success, and the success for the Fedora Project.

Your responsibilities include:

  • Being an interface for an identified sub-project or SIG in Fedora.
  • Helping students communicate with the overall project and any upstream.
  • Helping the student plan realistic achievable milestones that provide for regular deliverables and feedback.
  • Regular communication with your student. This means you must be regularly available for the entire project. If you take a holiday you need to know early and help your student be ready for your brief absence.
  • Attend a brief monthly mentors call.
  • Be the final, accountable person for deciding if the student is successful or not. This is responsibility akin to being a professor or boss.

List of Mentors

Mentors are listed on the Main Idea Page and Supporting Mentor List

Communication

Timeline (Abbreviated)

  • 10 October, 2016: Program announced.
  • 19 January, 2017: 16:00 UTC Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.
  • 09 February: 16:00 UTC Mentoring organization application deadline.
  • 10 - 26 February: Google program administrators review organization applications.
  • 27 February 16:00 UTC List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code site.

Interim Period: Would-be students discuss project ideas with potential mentoring organizations.

  • 20 March: 16:00 UTC Student application period opens.
  • 03 April: 16:00 UTC Student application deadline.

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

  • 04 May: 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.

  • 30 May: 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.

  • 26 June: 16:00 UTC Mentors and students can begin submitting Phase 1 evaluations.
  • 30 June: 16:00 UTC Phase 1 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.

  • 28 July: 16:00 UTC Phase 2 evaluations deadline.
  • 21 to 29 August: 16:00 UTC: Final week: Students tidy code, write tests, improve documentation and submit their code sample. Students also submit their final mentor evaluation.
  • 29 August: Mentors can start submitting final student evaluations.
  • 05 September: 16:00 UTC: Final evaluation deadline
  • 06 September: Final results of Google Summer of Code 2017 announced
  • Late October: Mentor Summit at Google. Mentors and Organization Administrators from each participating organization are invited to Google for an unconference to collaborate on ideas to make the program better and to make new friends too!

Ideas Page

Links

  1. The Four Foundations of Fedora
  2. Official GSoC Resources
  3. Fedora Documentation
  4. IRC
  5. Development

Administration

In order to get questions answered or obtain more information related to this year's GSoC with Fedora, please contact the administrators directly (please consider CCing the summer-coding list where ever possible).

  1. Brian (bex) Exelbierd (Primary)
  2. Tom Calloway (Secondary)