Hi everyone, I'd like to follow-up on this as GSoC timeline starts soon in February [1].
We didn't get any project ideas tagged with the 'gsoc' label in the past 2 months, except Aleksandr Sorokoumov which sent me some tickets for offline triaging. This may indicate this model of having potential mentors register project ideas may not be working too well. I'd like to propose having students triage unassigned tickets and propose projects to potential mentors in the mailing list. We could create a blog post with a "Call for GSoC Projects" with instructions on how to triage tickets on JIRA and propose project ideas in the mailing list, and a twitter campaign pointing to the blog post. What do you think? Paulo [1] - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline Em sex., 12 de nov. de 2021 às 11:30, Paulo Motta <pauloricard...@gmail.com> escreveu: > We made an announcement about GSoC on our twitter account (@cassandra) > with a call to action for potentially interested people to reach out on > #cassandra-dev. > > I kindly ask everyone to refer prospective GSoC contributors to LHF > tickets and getting started pages so they can get involved with the project > before the official project ideas are released. > > Also, please retweet this to get the word out: > https://twitter.com/cassandra/status/1459163741002645507 > > Chers, > > Paulo > > Em sex., 12 de nov. de 2021 às 08:24, Berenguer Blasi < > berenguerbl...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> Agreed thx a lot. >> >> On 12/11/21 10:02, Benjamin Lerer wrote: >> > Thanks a lot Paulo for pushing that forward. That is a great way to grow >> > our community. >> > >> > Le jeu. 11 nov. 2021 à 14:32, Paulo Motta <pauloricard...@gmail.com> a >> > écrit : >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> The Google Summer of Code organization announced some exciting changes >> to >> >> the program next year [1]: >> >> (1) Starting in 2022, the program will be open to all newcomers of open >> >> source that are 18 years and older, no longer focusing solely on >> university >> >> students. >> >> (2) GSoC Contributors will be able to choose from multiple size >> projects >> >> ~175 hour (medium) and 350 hour (large). >> >> (3) We are building increased flexibility around the timing of >> projects - >> >> there is an option to extend the standard 12 week coding time frame to >> a >> >> maximum of 22 weeks. >> >> >> >> I wanted to take this announcement to kick-off the preparation for our >> >> participation in the program next year as a means of attracting and >> >> mentoring new contributors to our community. >> >> >> >> The earlier we attract prospective "GSoC Contributors" the higher the >> >> chances of a successful project and retaining the contributors after >> the >> >> program. >> >> >> >> The best GSoC project ideas are those which are self-contained: have a >> well >> >> defined scope, discreet milestones and definition of done. Generally >> the >> >> areas which are easier for GSoC contributors to get started are: >> >> - UX improvements >> >> - Tools >> >> - Benchmarking >> >> - Refactoring and Modularization >> >> >> >> I would like to invite contributors to start tagging issues in JIRA >> with >> >> the "gsoc" tag as a means of indicating that particular task can be >> >> potentially turned into a GSoC project. >> >> >> >> With the large volume of CEPs being voted and approved recently, it >> would >> >> be great if a portion of the "nice-to-have" subtasks which are not a >> strict >> >> requirement of the CEP to be created with GSoC mentoring in mind. Ie. >> >> benchmark CEP, extend CEP with some additional but not-core >> functionality, >> >> CEP UX improvements, etc. With this in mind I'd like to ask CEP >> shepherds >> >> to create and tag these tasks with the "gsoc" tag. >> >> >> >> Please note that mentoring a GSoC project is not only a good way to >> attract >> >> new members to the community but also a great way of recruiting new >> members >> >> to your professional teams, so there's great personal, professional and >> >> community benefits to mentoring a GSoC project. >> >> >> >> Once we have a good amount of tasks with the "gsoc" tag I will work >> with >> >> prospective mentor to refine the tasks and create a "GSoC Project >> Ideas" >> >> page and we can write a blog post to announce the project ideas to >> >> prospective GSoC contributors. >> >> >> >> Please let me know what do you think. >> >> >> >> Paulo >> >> >> >> [1] >> >> >> >> >> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/11/expanding-google-summer-of-code-in-2022.html >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >> >>
