Thanks a lot Paulo for pushing that forward. That is a great way to grow our community.
Le jeu. 11 nov. 2021 à 14:32, Paulo Motta <pauloricard...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hi, > > The Google Summer of Code organization announced some exciting changes to > the program next year [1]: > (1) Starting in 2022, the program will be open to all newcomers of open > source that are 18 years and older, no longer focusing solely on university > students. > (2) GSoC Contributors will be able to choose from multiple size projects > ~175 hour (medium) and 350 hour (large). > (3) We are building increased flexibility around the timing of projects - > there is an option to extend the standard 12 week coding time frame to a > maximum of 22 weeks. > > I wanted to take this announcement to kick-off the preparation for our > participation in the program next year as a means of attracting and > mentoring new contributors to our community. > > The earlier we attract prospective "GSoC Contributors" the higher the > chances of a successful project and retaining the contributors after the > program. > > The best GSoC project ideas are those which are self-contained: have a well > defined scope, discreet milestones and definition of done. Generally the > areas which are easier for GSoC contributors to get started are: > - UX improvements > - Tools > - Benchmarking > - Refactoring and Modularization > > I would like to invite contributors to start tagging issues in JIRA with > the "gsoc" tag as a means of indicating that particular task can be > potentially turned into a GSoC project. > > With the large volume of CEPs being voted and approved recently, it would > be great if a portion of the "nice-to-have" subtasks which are not a strict > requirement of the CEP to be created with GSoC mentoring in mind. Ie. > benchmark CEP, extend CEP with some additional but not-core functionality, > CEP UX improvements, etc. With this in mind I'd like to ask CEP shepherds > to create and tag these tasks with the "gsoc" tag. > > Please note that mentoring a GSoC project is not only a good way to attract > new members to the community but also a great way of recruiting new members > to your professional teams, so there's great personal, professional and > community benefits to mentoring a GSoC project. > > Once we have a good amount of tasks with the "gsoc" tag I will work with > prospective mentor to refine the tasks and create a "GSoC Project Ideas" > page and we can write a blog post to announce the project ideas to > prospective GSoC contributors. > > Please let me know what do you think. > > Paulo > > [1] > > https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/11/expanding-google-summer-of-code-in-2022.html >
