GSoC as Internship?

[naraesk]

Hello,

I'm a university employee and we are considering applying as an organisation to GSoC since we are developing open source software. Currently, our students have to do an internship as part of their studies which is unpaid if they do it at university. Is it possible for a student to do the GSoC as an intership? I mean not parallel, but that the project he/she is working on is acknowledged as GSoC project and we acknowledge it as internship (so he/she gains credit points) or is this not intented?

Thanks in advance,

David

[Stephanie Taylor]

You can not select your own students from your university program for your selected GSoC students as that defeats the purpose of the program - to bring new contributors to your open source projects. 

GSoC is not an internship.

As far as university credit for doing GSoC that is completely up to the university if they accept GSoC as an internship requirement in their curriculum (many universities do accept is in lieu of an internship).

 Stephanie Taylor 

 Open Source Programs, Google 

 stta...@google.com 

 

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[naraesk]

Thanks for your responce, but I still have some questions.

Am Dienstag, 31. Oktober 2017 07:10:19 UTC+1 schrieb Stephanie:

You can not select your own students from your university program for your selected GSoC students as that defeats the purpose of the program - to bring new contributors to your open source projects. 

Q1: But if students from our university apply, we could select them, if they are not related to us, i.e. never worked for us/on the project,  couldn't we?

Q2: As far as I know some organizations, e.g., KDE, have the requirement that you need to contribute to KDE  before applying for GSoC funding. Seems contradictory to "bring new contributors to your open source projects".

Thanks in advance,

David

GSoC is not an internship.

As far as university credit for doing GSoC that is completely up to the university if they accept GSoC as an internship requirement in their curriculum (many universities do accept is in lieu of an internship).

 Stephanie Taylor 

 Open Source Programs, Google 

 stta...@google.com 

 

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 4:51 AM, naraesk <nar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm a university employee and we are considering applying as an organisation to GSoC since we are developing open source software. Currently, our students have to do an internship as part of their studies which is unpaid if they do it at university. Is it possible for a student to do the GSoC as an intership? I mean not parallel, but that the project he/she is working on is acknowledged as GSoC project and we acknowledge it as internship (so he/she gains credit points) or is this not intented?

Thanks in advance,

David

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Hello,

Thanks for your responce, but I still have some questions.

Am Dienstag, 31. Oktober 2017 07:10:19 UTC+1 schrieb Stephanie:

You can not select your own students from your university program for your selected GSoC students as that defeats the purpose of the program - to bring new contributors to your open source projects. 

Q1: But if students from our university apply, we could select them, if they are not related to us, i.e. never worked for us/on the project,  couldn't we?

Yes, in theory but you can not only accept students from your university as that would show bias.

Q2: As far as I know some organizations, e.g., KDE, have the requirement that you need to contribute to KDE  before applying for GSoC funding. Seems contradictory to "bring new contributors to your open source projects".

Some orgs may require the students to submit a code sample, and to show an interest in the project before the application period begins- which could mean joining the community before GSoC even starts. That is not contradictory to bringing new contributors as they are encouraging interested students to communicate early with their project so they are finding the students most interested in their project and community.