Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Trip Report during visit to GSOC Summit

[Samson Goddy]

Awesome

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 8:43 PM James Cameron  Thanks.  Text of document inserted below, for our mailing list
> archives, as we do lose access to Google Documents later if accounts
> are compromised.
>
> --
>
> Journey To GSOC events, USA
>
>
> I never expected that this would be one of the turning points in the life.
> My journey to Google gave me opportunity to learn and explore new things in
> the current world.
>
>
> I was given the chance to represent Sugar Labs at Google Summer of Code
> Meetup in Google Office, San Francisco, California, USA. This was really an
> amazing experience meeting prodigious people from different organisations
> and other communities especially the Google Open Source Team all over the
> globe.
>
>
> L to R: Joshua Simmons(Google), Jaskirat Singh
>   me and Cat Allman (Google)
> (me) & Stephanie Taylor (Google OSPM)
>
>
> The major importance of this meetup was to connect with background
> Contributors i.e. students with the real time organisations and their
> missions. This meetup had various people including Google Code In and
> Google Summer of code students, mentors and organization administrators.
>
>
> I connected with many people especially students in order to explain the
> functionality and product service of Sugar Labs. I had a very nice time
> spending hours with Mifos, Liquid Galaxy, Catrobat, and other organisation
> org admins: talking about collaboration and networking.
>
>
>
>
> GSOC Meetup pic at Google San Francisco
>
>
> Many students at this meetup were quite interested to know about the Sugar
> and make their contribution in the next GSOC that is GSOC’2019. I tried
> partnering with Liquid Galaxy here in order to introduce Turtle Blocks and
> Music Blocks in their laptops which they recently launched in order to
> expand within educational institutions. These laptops were similar to the
> Chromebooks.
>
>
> The best time I had here was when I was demonstrating about the
> productivity of Sugar Labs especially Turtle Blocks and they were looking
> deeply into its codebase.
>
>
> Then I moved to Sunnyvale for attending the GSOC Mentor Summit. The blood
> ran into my spine when the Stephanie Taylor ( GSOC Open Source Team member
> ) introduced about me at Summit.
>
>
> The GSOC mentor Summit was a 3 day “unconference”. The people from
> different participating organisations proposed and held various session
> that included about Open Source, Organisation, projects, and other
> miscellaneous topics.
>
>
>
>
>   Opening Ceremony of GSOC Summit
>Organising sessions
>
>
> During the starting ceremony the Google Team instructed and explained us
> about importance of this summit.
>
>
> It was indeed pleasure to meet Devin Ulibarri (SL Org Admin in GSOC);
> discussing about the past histories of Sugar Labs and new plans for it. I
> discussed my idea of organising the Sugar Labs Summit once in the year. So
> maybe this gonna be covered in my next upcoming doc. Devin explained me
> about the Music and Music Blocks project going  in the Japan went he had
> been there. We also discussed about new User interface features for the
> Music Blocks and Turtle Blocks like creating a “New Tab window”, “Theme
> Changer”, etc.
>
>
>
>
> Pic with Devin Ulibarri ( Sugar Labs )
>
>
> I along with Devin attended many session, but the one I liked most was
> Google Season of Docs (GSOD). This session was lead by Sarah Maddox, a tech
> writer at Google who talked about of bringing more tech writers  into Open
> Source projects.
>
>
> “GSoD is similar to Google Summer of Code but focuses on docs and
> technical writers, rather than on code and students. The target
> participants are experienced tech writers who can work with us on our docs.
> The writing part of GSoD will run for 3 months, similar to GSoC. Another
> difference is that the technical writers will not be earning stipends, they
> will be doing this to learn more about open source code and working on
> developer focused docs with code and building their resume.”
>
>
> So this was really interesting topic to know  and understand about it. I
> really want to see this that how this will impact on Open Source
> organisations. This deck has more details about this program
> https://goo.gl/3Bpris
> It was really good when Devin introduced the Music Blocks project that was
> done by Riya Lohiya in GSOC’18 under the SL org. Although his talk was
> restricted to 3 mins, Devin was able to express beautifully within that
> time perfectly.
>
>
>
>
>  ( While Devin was explaining about the Riya Lohia’s project ( an intern
> in Sugar labs under GSOC’18 ) )
>
>
> I also organised a session and talked about Open Source Social Networking
> platform. Discussed this with Google Open Source Team too and they were
> really glad and wanted to see that how it come up.
>
>
> Having lunch with Karen Sandler from Software Freedom Conservancy
> including other member project member was really fun. We discussed

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Trip Report during visit to GSOC Summit

[James Cameron]

Thanks.  Text of document inserted below, for our mailing list
archives, as we do lose access to Google Documents later if accounts
are compromised.

--

Journey To GSOC events, USA


I never expected that this would be one of the turning points in the life. My 
journey to Google gave me opportunity to learn and explore new things in the 
current world.


I was given the chance to represent Sugar Labs at Google Summer of Code Meetup 
in Google Office, San Francisco, California, USA. This was really an amazing 
experience meeting prodigious people from different organisations and other 
communities especially the Google Open Source Team all over the globe. 
  
  
L to R: Joshua Simmons(Google), Jaskirat Singh  
me and Cat Allman (Google)
(me) & Stephanie Taylor (Google OSPM)


The major importance of this meetup was to connect with background Contributors 
i.e. students with the real time organisations and their missions. This meetup 
had various people including Google Code In and Google Summer of code students, 
mentors and organization administrators.


I connected with many people especially students in order to explain the 
functionality and product service of Sugar Labs. I had a very nice time 
spending hours with Mifos, Liquid Galaxy, Catrobat, and other organisation org 
admins: talking about collaboration and networking.


  

GSOC Meetup pic at Google San Francisco


Many students at this meetup were quite interested to know about the Sugar and 
make their contribution in the next GSOC that is GSOC’2019. I tried partnering 
with Liquid Galaxy here in order to introduce Turtle Blocks and Music Blocks in 
their laptops which they recently launched in order to expand within 
educational institutions. These laptops were similar to the Chromebooks.


The best time I had here was when I was demonstrating about the productivity of 
Sugar Labs especially Turtle Blocks and they were looking deeply into its 
codebase.


Then I moved to Sunnyvale for attending the GSOC Mentor Summit. The blood ran 
into my spine when the Stephanie Taylor ( GSOC Open Source Team member ) 
introduced about me at Summit.


The GSOC mentor Summit was a 3 day “unconference”. The people from different 
participating organisations proposed and held various session that included 
about Open Source, Organisation, projects, and other miscellaneous topics.


  

  Opening Ceremony of GSOC Summit   
  Organising sessions


During the starting ceremony the Google Team instructed and explained us about 
importance of this summit.


It was indeed pleasure to meet Devin Ulibarri (SL Org Admin in GSOC); 
discussing about the past histories of Sugar Labs and new plans for it. I 
discussed my idea of organising the Sugar Labs Summit once in the year. So 
maybe this gonna be covered in my next upcoming doc. Devin explained me about 
the Music and Music Blocks project going  in the Japan went he had been there. 
We also discussed about new User interface features for the Music Blocks and 
Turtle Blocks like creating a “New Tab window”, “Theme Changer”, etc.


  

Pic with Devin Ulibarri ( Sugar Labs )


I along with Devin attended many session, but the one I liked most was Google 
Season of Docs (GSOD). This session was lead by Sarah Maddox, a tech writer at 
Google who talked about of bringing more tech writers  into Open Source 
projects.


“GSoD is similar to Google Summer of Code but focuses on docs and technical 
writers, rather than on code and students. The target participants are 
experienced tech writers who can work with us on our docs. The writing part of 
GSoD will run for 3 months, similar to GSoC. Another difference is that the 
technical writers will not be earning stipends, they will be doing this to 
learn more about open source code and working on developer focused docs with 
code and building their resume.”


So this was really interesting topic to know  and understand about it. I really 
want to see this that how this will impact on Open Source organisations. This 
deck has more details about this program https://goo.gl/3Bpris
It was really good when Devin introduced the Music Blocks project that was done 
by Riya Lohiya in GSOC’18 under the SL org. Although his talk was restricted to 
3 mins, Devin was able to express beautifully within that time perfectly.


  
   
 ( While Devin was explaining about the Riya Lohia’s project ( an intern in 
Sugar labs under GSOC’18 ) )


I also organised a session and talked about Open Source Social Networking 
platform. Discussed this with Google Open Source Team too and they were really 
glad and wanted to see that how it come up.


Having lunch with Karen Sandler from Software Freedom Conservancy including 
other member project member was really fun. We discussed supporting the member 
projects, some new offers and projects that 

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Trip Report during visit to GSOC Summit

[IQRA MUHAMMAD]

A great read.

Best,
Iqra

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 6:54 PM Jaskirat Singh 
wrote:

> Greetings of the Day !
>
> Well here is my Trip during my visit to GSOC meetups and Summit , USA
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNr93-4bztKPG1SDopP6FT9Xvrv1iZYiKO-masN6haU/edit?usp=drivesdk
>
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Trip Report during visit to GSOC Summit

[Vipul Gupta]

Absolutely loved it. I hope the experience was as cherishing as it was a
delight to me when I read it.
Keep up the good work.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 7:24 PM Jaskirat Singh 
wrote:

> Greetings of the Day !
>
> Well here is my Trip during my visit to GSOC meetups and Summit , USA
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNr93-4bztKPG1SDopP6FT9Xvrv1iZYiKO-masN6haU/edit?usp=drivesdk
>
> Thanks
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[IAEP] Trip Report during visit to GSOC Summit

[Jaskirat Singh]

Greetings of the Day !

Well here is my Trip during my visit to GSOC meetups and Summit , USA

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNr93-4bztKPG1SDopP6FT9Xvrv1iZYiKO-masN6haU/edit?usp=drivesdk

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