GDCC Participation in the Google Summer of Code
James Myers
All,
On behalf of the community, GDCC is planning to register as an organization participating in the Google Summer of Code program for 2020. For those who haven’t heard of the program, Google support students working on open source projects, providing them a stipend to work with mentors from organizations such as the Dataverse community/GDCC. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ provides lots of information about the program. On previous projects, I’ve participated in GSOC as a mentor (free t-shirts!) and have seen it to be mutually beneficial for students and organizations. Students get real world experience, and organizations get help on projects of interest.
The initial application for GDCC to participate is due tomorrow (J) with at least an initial list of potential mentors and project ideas. From discussions at the European Dataverse workshop and community meetings, etc. I think we can generate a project list, but we’d like to throw this open to the community at large to ask for additional ideas and to ask anyone involved in Dataverse-related development/documentation if they’d be interested in being listed as a mentor. As mentioned, to be included in the initial submission, we need responses ASAP/ before ~noon Eastern tomorrow.
The way GSOC works is that GDCC applies and indicates how many students it is interested in mentoring, Google reviews the overall pool of organization applications and selects a subset that are approved to participate and gives them the number of students they are allowed (usually less than they ask for). For a first-time organization, we’re unlikely to get more than 2-3 if we are accepted. After that, students have a few weeks to interact with organizations before they apply with a project plan (usually starting from some if the ideas we suggest) and we decide which students to accept. After that, they start working and, if we agree they are making reasonable progress, Google pays them in three installments over the summer (~$6K total, amount varies by country due to cost of living). At the end of the program GDCC will also receive a small amount per student (~$500). Mentors are not paid and its estimated that they will need a few hours per week to work with students (4-5). Which mentors from our pool of potential mentors end up working with a student depends on the projects we select. (So, saying you’d be willing to be a mentor is a few steps removed from having a student to work with over the summer.) The students are expected to interact with the larger community as well.
If you have any questions that you need answered before you can send a project idea of volunteer to be a potential mentor, let me know. Otherwise, when we have our application in and we hear from Google, we’ll send additional information about how things will work. As soon as I can get a draft created, I’ll post our existing ideas list – it can be a living document that we add to over time (and potentially keep up to date for next year, etc.).
Thanks – and apologies for the short notice.
-- Jim
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