Dear all, the Contributor Submission Deadline is April 02, 2024. In this regard, beside the other interactions with the projects please prepare for submitting a good proposal. Besides getting in contact with the the projects, reading the GSoC Guides, our wiki and possibly doing teaser task which you can read about here: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-advice ... the main task is to prepare a good proposal. For good proposals you can read here: https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal Additionally, it should also consider: - Show you worked a bit into the nature of the project idea and were in contact with the developer team. - We highly recommend to solve the XMPP Quiz and consider writing about it and potential required knowledge around it - Make a first draft for milestones or a timeline. I understand its difficult in the beginning, but you can at least try. That thinking will help to give you a feeling for the entire work. In general, don't forget you have a timeline and should not do many other things outside of GSoC. Your plan should be integrated along the GSoC timeline. - Remind that you still may have or need breaks. - Please also don't use LLMs (ChatGPT) for the proposals. We will realize this and even if not you will get big problems during the summer as no LLM will likely solve the project ideas. It is an opportunity to learn and grow. Generic proposals do not show the right motivation. And that's my last point, please show authentic motivation 🙂 This is the best driver for this adventure 🙂 Cheers, Eddie _________________________ GSoC 2024 Administrator at XSF On 18.01.24 08:28, E.M. wrote:
A kind reminder to XMPP projects to list ideas if they want to participate at GSoC 2024.
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024
10 ene 2024 21:38:41 E.M. <emus@mailbox.org>:
Dear all,
the XMPP Standards Foundation once again plans to apply for the Google Summer of Code 2024! https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/11/google-summer-of-code-2024-celebra...
Hereby, I call everyone interested to reach out and start planning their participation. If you are interested please review:
- Read the mentoring guide or at least watch their Youtube videos: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq - The time you can really spent as mentor: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline - Your project runs under a OSI approved license: https://opensource.org/licenses/ - You will require to register to Google's organization platform with an Google account. However, you don't need a Google mail, just carefully follow the steps. - Communicate and reach out in your OWN community too. - You and your students need to be available continuously through XMPP. In the recent years I had the experience people being offline and were not able to reach through their XMPP accounts sufficiently.
Regarding the latter, the stipend also has interest for community bonding, also to XMPP in general. You shouldn't expect students to solve difficult implementation unless you know them and their capabilities.
Application starts at Monday, 22nd January 2024, please have potential ideas ready by then.
Changes to GSoC to this year for your interest:
- "Starting in 2024 we will have small (~90 hour projects), medium (~175 hr projects) and large (~350 hour) projects available to GSoC contributors. Orgs should have medium and large projects available in their Project Ideas lists. Small project ideas are not required for orgs, but if the smaller size project works for your org they should be included in your Organization’s Ideas List."
Find our wikipage for organization here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024 To edit the page, reach out to an XSF member to enter your input or you’ll need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. Reach out in the XSF public chatroom: https://xmpp.org/chat#converse/room?jid=xsf@muc.xmpp.org
I am happy to hear from a backup org admin to help me here and there or if I cannot make it due to other appointments. Basic organization skills should be sufficient.
Let me know if you have further questions. Please join:
Cheers, Eddie _________________________ GSoC Administrator at XSF