Google Summer of Code 2018 (students & mentors please read this!)

[Federico Capoano]

Hi everyone,

at the beginning of the week we have been accepted again into the Google Summer of Code!

I could send this announcement only today because I have been super busy.

Please take a look at the project list page for 2018.

Students

Please read our GSoC guidelines and the resources linked therein carefully to increase your chances of success and to save us a lot of precious time. 

This year we will be very selective. We won't accept sloppy proposals nor students who have not contributed to our community in anyway.

Therefore if you want to increase your chances start early, help one another and contribute.

GSoC is ultimately a way for you to learn the good practices of open source development.

Getting accepted is a privilege: accepted students are going to be paid to work on open source and be taught skills that are extremely valuable.

Mentors

If you think you have the skills and time to mentor or co-mentor, get in touch with me and Marco Cappellacci. You may also propose a new idea. Previous experience with OpenWISP and open source is required. A good amount of time to dedicate to this is also required. Mentoring properly takes between 5 and 15 hours every week, in the beginning usually the time required is higher. Therefore think about applying only if you are interested in achieving a goal that you need so much that you are willing to invest time and energy into it.

If you think there's the possibility you may have not time or worse take on responsibilities and then disappear, don't even bother please as you'd be doing more harm than good.

If you have never mentored, see also the official Mentor Guide to understand what it means to mentor a student (takeaway: it requires serious effort).

Good luck to everybody!

Federico Capoano