Raj Kissu - Google Summer of Code 101

Raj Kissu Rajandran

Google Summer of Code101

A FOSS.MY Presentation

What I'll Be Covering● Summer of Code (SoC)

➔ What It Is➔ When And Where It Is➔ Why Participate➔ How To Get Involved

● Preparations for SoC

● What's Expected During SoC

About Me ...● I'm Raj Kissu Rajandran

● APIIT Student

● Pursuing Software Engineering

● Working at QubeConnect Sdn. Bhd. as a part-time software developer

● Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast

● GsoC 2008 Student

What Is It?

● Suggested by Sergey and Larry

● Named after the Summer of Love

● Involves many OSS groups

● Students from various educational backgrounds

● Students propose and complete an open source project

● ONLY students can propose projects

● Signup as a mentor to guide students

Summer of CodeGoals

Get more OSS code out in the open

Get students to contribute

Provide students exposure

Identify potential developers

NOT a recruiting program

When And Where Is It Held?

Held all over the world

Annually since 2005

Normally between May and August

Duration of 4 months– 1 month for community bonding

– 3 months for coding

Why Join Summer of Code?

Coding Experience

Mentorship

Meet Other GSoCers

A Gift From Google

Google SoC T-Shirt

Certificate of Participation

Cash Incentive - $4500!! (approx. R16k)

How Do I Join SoC?

Choose an organisation

Get an idea:– Come up with your own

– Or get one from the SoC Ideas list

Write a proposal

Register as a Google Student and submit it

Cross your fingers and await approval

Community Bonding

Contact your mentors

Familiarise yourself with the mentoring

organisation

Understand what's expected of you

Get to know other GsoCers

Finalise your project approach

Actual Coding

Coding starts in June

Consists of 12 weeks

Submit weekly reports

Focus on code, not documentation

Implement coding standards

Anything else your mentors tell you

Midterm Evaluation

Takes place during the 7th week

A workable release of the project should be

available

Complete the Midterm Survey

Await approval

Final Evaluation

Takes place on the last week – Week 12

All coding should be done by this week

Spruce up code

Provide documentation– Usage documentation

– Technical documentation (code comments)

Complete the Final Survey

Once again, wait for approval

Failure! Better luck next time

Success! Prepare a tarball of your project for

your submission to Google

How You Get Paid!

GsoC Student Debit Card

Payment broken into three segments

First payment ($500) during Week 1

Second payment ($2000) after

Midterm evaluation

Final payment ($2000) after Final evaluation

Project Demonstration

Things To Remember

● SoC proliferates Open Source Software

● Open Source encourages sharing of knowledge

● Contribute to Open Source

● Join the next Summer of Code!

For Further Info ...Google Summer of Code:

– http://code.google.com/soc/

BLOBStreaming:– http://www.blobstreaming.org

My SoC Blog: http://code.kissu.org

Email me at [email protected]

Q & A

THANKS FOR LISTENING!