Hi all,
If anyone is interested in running GSOC, please see below. I'm happy to
help out with GSOC but don't have the bandwidth to run it. Also happy to
answer questions about it if you're interested. GSOC was very successful
for us a few years ago and it would be nice to do it again if we can.
-Nathan
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From: Nicole Foster
Date: Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 2:51 PM
Subject: [NumFOCUS Projects] Google Summer of Code 2020
To: , Affiliated Projects
Cc:
Hello, NumFOCUS project leaders!
NumFOCUS has participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring
organization since 2015 and will do so again for 2020.
*If you would like to participate in GSoC 2020 under the NumFOCUS umbrella*,
please email the NumFOCUS GSoC 2020 Coordinator: Mridul Seth <
seth.mridul@gmail.com>
*NumFOCUS will submit one application with as many projects underneath us
as would like to participate.*
Applications for GSoC mentoring organizations open on January 14th, and the
deadline to apply is Feb 5th. (full timeline is here
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline)
- - - - -
Below is some additional information about the program and considerations
for participating.
*GSoC Last Year*
In 2019, the following projects participated in GSoC under NumFOCUS:
- ArviZ
- Blosc
- Cantera
- Chainer
- CuPy
- Dask
- Data Retriever
- FEniCS
- JuMP
- Matplotlib
- MDAnalysis
- nteract
- PyMC3
- QuTiP
- Yellowbrick
AstroPy, SunPy, Julia, Shogun and SymPy participated separately or under
other partner organizations.
We ran a blog series last summer highlighting all student participants
which you can access here (
https://numfocus.org/blog/meet-our-2019-gsoc-students-part-1) . It should
be enlightening in terms of student motivations and the sorts of projects
they take on through the program.
The GH repo that maintains information about the NumFOCUS process for GSoC
is here https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc and contains many details about
our internal processes and rules (not all of which are required by Google
but which we have found to improve outcomes for the program).
*Should My Project Participate?*
The main thing to keep in mind when considering whether to participate is
to ensure that you have a sufficient number of mentors with available
mentoring time. 2 or even 3 mentors per student helps to spread the work
around and keep things manageable for everyone.
Based on Matplotlib's experience taking on two students in 2017, they
recommend that projects who feel somewhat unsure about their mentoring
capacity be less ambitious in the number of students you accept.
*Why Participate?*
Prior participants have generally had very good experiences with GSoC. It
is often cited as a primary driver behind finding new regular contributors
and eventual maintainers, so very good for the funnel of potential future
project leaders.
GSoC also offers a great opportunity to diversify the mix of your
contributors. Shogun, for example, has had great success in recruiting and
mentoring women through GSoC who then stayed on as project maintainers.
If you have any further questions about GSoC participation, please reach
out to Mridul Seth .
Best,
--
Nicole Foster
Executive Operations Administrator, NumFOCUS
nicole@numfocus.org
512-831-2870
http://www.numfocus.org/
https://twitter.com/NumFOCUS https://www.facebook.com/NumFOCUS/
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