Agreed thx a lot. On 12/11/21 10:02, Benjamin Lerer wrote: > 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 >>
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