Google Summer of Code 2019

[martinda]

I am Martin, one of the Jenkins GSoC Org Admins for 2019.

We are preparing for the 15th edition of the famous Google Summer of Code program. Jenkins successfully participated in 2016 and 2018.

GSoC is as program where students are paid a stipend by Google to work on a free open source project like Jenkins, at full-time for four months (May to August). Mentors get actively involved with students starting at the end of February when students start to apply (see the timeline).

Before we can accept students, we need Google to accept Jenkins' application to the program itself. And for this to happen, we need coding project proposals and mentors.

We currently have a list of project idea proposals, and are still accepting new project proposals, mentors, technical advisers, and subject matter experts.

Making a project idea proposal is easy, read the quick start instructions.

Mentoring takes about 5 to 6 hours of work per week (more at the start, less at the end) to mentor a student. In return, one of your projects may get completed. Think about those projects that you've always wanted to do but could not find the time... GSoC is a pretty good return on the investment.

You can find the GSoC admins, mentors and participants on the gitter chat https://gitter.im/jenkinsci/gsoc-sig

Best Regards,
Martin d'Anjou
Jenkins GSoC Org Admin Team 2019

[Oleg Nenashev]

Hi all,

Here is also a blogpost from Martin. Just to provide some update here, right now we have 14 project ideas and 15 potential mentors. It is already enough to apply for GSoC 2019, so we will definitely do it when applications start in January. We are very interested to have even more project ideas and mentors so that we can offer more opportunities to potential students. If you have interest to have a side project around Jenkins, GSoC is a great opportunity for that.

From the community standpoint, GSoC is a great opportunity to work on the areas which we have been been discussing for years and have been unable to really touch them. GSoC 2018 was a great example of that, all 3 projects (Code Coverage API, Remoting over Message Bus, and Pipeline as YAML) were actually ideas we have been discussing for years in different channels. And GSoC helped us to actually implement these topics and to ship these features to Jenkins users. I would really like to do something like that in 2019, so all kinds of Architecture projects would be really appreciated.

Best regards,

Oleg

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