hey, everyone!!
Since the Google Summer of Code is around the corner, I thought it would be a great idea to share my learnings and insights with you all. I will write a series of posts detailing one issue at a time, I will try to cover all the basic questions and details. Hopefully, this will provide some value and help you decide your GSoC organisation as well.
What is Google Summer of Code?
To participate and get some good results out of it. It is important to know all the basics of the program. What is the true meaning of GSoC and why Google is running this program?
Basic - The Google Summer of Code, often abbreviated to GSoC, is an international annual program in which Google awards stipends to contributors who successfully complete a free and open-source software coding project during the summer. The contributors work under different mentors from the project, who guide you throughout your project experience.
I would advise you to go through Google's Offical documentation once.
- Points to keep in Mind
Since the start of 2022, Google has announced that everyone can participate in the program without the need of being a student. This means that even if you aren’t currently enrolled in an institute, you can still participate even working officials can participate in this program. However, this would also mean that a lot more people will be applying, therefore bringing in a lot more competition.
As GSoC Contributors, you won’t be working with Google but with your selected Organization. I will detail more about organizations and organization selection later on.
The program’s official timeline starts from March 7. Google will announce all of the organizations and their Project listings after that, and everyone will have time to discuss the project up until April 4-19, when the official Application period begins.
I worked with Processing Foundation on their p5.js project. On this project, I worked on internationalization(i18n) and the Deployment of a new version of p5.js. A new website was created and deployed in this project for more details you can refer to my medium article.
That's about it make sure to read my other posts, as this was just a beginner's post. In the upcoming posts, I will share more details regarding selecting open source organisations and how to work with them.
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