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Google Summer of Code with Drupal

April 2, 2017

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About me

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Naveen Valecha

  • Drupal: naveenvalecha
  • Git Administer on Drupal.org
  • Site Maintainer of groups.drupal.org
  • Twitter: @_naveenvalecha_
  • Web: https://www.valechatech.net
  • Drupal 5, 6, 7, 8

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Google Summer of Code

Open Source

  • Computer software where the source code is distributed under an open source license that allows anyone to study, change, improve and distribute the software.
  • Promotes collaboration
  • Community of dedicated developers

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Google Summer of Code

What is GSoC?

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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an online, international program designed to encourage university student participation in open source software development.

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Google Summer of Code

About

Students work for an open source software organization, and earn a stipend for successfully completing the project. University students spend their time outside of school working in a field that can help them with their studies and career after university.

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Goals of the program

  • Help organizations continue to identify and bring in new developers each year
  • Expose students to real world software development scenarios
  • Help students build a strong network when applying for jobs

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Google Summer of Code

How does GSoC work?

  • Open source software projects apply to be mentor organizations
  • Google chooses the organizations to participate (178 in 2016)
  • Students submit project proposals to mentor organizations

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Google Summer of Code

How does GSoC work?

  • Mentor organizations choose the students they’d like to accept
  • Students are paired with a mentor to help them throughout their project
  • Coding begins! Students work towards milestones laid out in their project proposal with their mentor over 12 weeks

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Google Summer of Code

Evaluations

  • Students must pass three evaluations
  • Students who pass each evaluation are paid a stipend for their work
  • At the conclusion of GSoC, students submit the code they’ve written for their project for everyone to see and use!

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Google Summer of Code

Eligibility

  • Over 18 upon registration
  • Accepted into or enrolled in a university program by the student acceptance date
  • Eligible to work in the country in which you reside
  • Have participated in no more than 1 previous GSoC

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Google Summer of Code

Statistics

  • In 12 years over 12,000 students from 104 countries have been accepted into GSoC
  • Countries with the most students:
    • India (2,262), United States (2,202), and Germany (717)
  • Approximately 30+ million lines of code have been produced

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Google Summer of Code

2017 Program Timeline

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  • Feb 27: Organizations are announced
  • Mar 20 - Apr 3: Students submit their proposals
  • May 1: Accepted students are announced
  • May 1 - May 29: Community bonding period with orgs
  • May 30 - Aug 29: Students code the summer away
  • Sept 6: Successful student projects are announced

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Drupal

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What is Drupal?

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Drupal is content management software. It's used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day.

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Drupal

About

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  • Open Source Software
  • General Public License (GPL)
  • Great Community

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Drupal

Drupal Journey with GSOC

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  • 2005 to 2016, …
  • 11 projects selected, 27 mentors, 2 GSOC admins in 2016
  • https://groups.drupal.org/google-summer-code

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Drupal

GSOC 2016 Students

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Drupal

How to get involved?

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Community Interactions

Come for the Code, Stay for the community

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Drupal

How to get involved?

IRC

Wikipedia : Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a system that facilitates transfer of messages in the form of text.

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GSOC channel : #drupal-google

List of channels : https://drupal.org/irc

Do's and Dont's : https://drupal.org/node/1259224

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Drupal

How to get involved?

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Drupal Answers - StackExchange

http://drupal.stackexchange.com/

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Where to Start?

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Ladder for GSOC students

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http://drupalladder.org/ladder/47217ef7-9bf5-4c7f-926f-aeee247aac78

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Useful Links

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Questions?

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THANK YOU!

https://goo.gl/aig9W6

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