Tanning for Open Source Projects - The Google Summer of Code & You

Tanning for Open Source Projects The Google Summer of Code & YouMustafa K. Isik Sebastian Schmidtisik@codesurgeon.com s.schmidt@acm.org

What you need to knowflip bits not burgersmentorship

Statistics$5M budget150 open source organizations1026 student projects

GSoC and Eclipse 25 Student projects 20 15 10 5 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Projects Eclipse search plugin: providing a better, faster, more relevant Eclipse search.  Student: Çağatay Çallı, Mentor: Francois Granade DocShare Plugin  Student: Mustafa Isik, Mentor: Scott Lewis Mylyn Trac Connector  Student: Steffen Pingel, Mentor: Mik Kersten

GSoC and Eclipse 25 Student projects Committer 20 15 10 5 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

birt cdt ecf egit emfepp equinox gef ide4edu jdt jetmodelling mylyn open health framework pde pdtplatform platform-uirap rcp rse runtime stp swt wtp

What about yourproject?

How does it work?Find a studentApplicationMentor your studentBe a great mentor

Anybody can bea great artist

not really

Anybody canbe a greatmentor

ChallengesStudent background.Mentoring experience.

Students come froma background ofsmelly code …… also known asuniversity.

Student Experiences small code bases  100 to 5K LOC little to no pre-existing code small, local teams if any at all  equally inexperienced little to no clue about tools in the trenches  build, test, analysis

What to convey?Where to begin?Where are the limits?

You need to tacklethese questions assoon as possible.

GoalsYour student has them.And so should you.

Be clear and openabout your goals,metrics, involvement& motivation.  transparency

Where does micro-management end?Where does neglectbegin?

Holden: The tortoise lays on itsback, its belly baking in the hotsun, beating its legs trying toturn itself over, but it cant.Not without your help.But youre not helping.Leon: What do you mean, Imnot helping?Holden: I mean: youre nothelping! Why is that, Leon?

Don‘t let your student‘sbelly bake in the sun!

Live discussion notes fromGSoC 2010 Mentor Summithttp://goo.gl/UKxt

Slides are available athttp://codesurgeon.comLicense: CC 3.0 BYThank you!

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