Fostering Student Involvement in FLOSS Projects
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This document discusses ways to foster student involvement in free and open source software projects through programs like Google Summer of Code. It addresses issues like defining tasks for students, finding mentors, evaluating student work, ensuring programs are compatible with employment regulations and university curriculums, and obtaining funding from sponsors. The document raises questions about moving forward with such a program and involves professors, mentors, companies and students.
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Fostering Student Involvement in FLOSS Projects
- 1. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH ylivier fergerD „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH Foreword sde—s —nd dis™ussion Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis Tuesday 09/11/2010
- 2. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH his™ussing w—ys to foster students ylivier fergerD involvement in pvyƒƒ proje™ts „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose Foreword sde—s —nd dis™ussion ˆ No, I'm not Albert Cohen (apologies, he's forced to rest at home while I'm enjoying the conference ;-) ˆ No, I haven't had time to prepare something really polished ˆ Haven't participated myself so much in GSoC
- 3. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH ‡ho s —m ylivier ˆ Institut TELECOM / TELECOM SudParis / fergerD „ele™om Computer Science dpt. / PFTCR/FOCS2 ƒud€—ris team sntrodu™tion ˆ 2 perm. sta Christian BAC and myself Purpose Foreword ˆ 2 PhD students sde—s —nd ˆ 2 non permanent research engineers dis™ussion ˆ Research on collaborative development platforms, tools, process, in FLOSS communities ˆ Previously worked in service companies (Cap Gemini, IDEALX) ˆ Research engineer at TELECOM SudParis since 2002 ˆ RD on FLOSS, forges, bugtracking, Linked Data, etc. (CALIBRE, HELIOS, COCLICO) ˆ Contributor to Debian, FusionForge, Mantis
- 4. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH e˜out the qoogle ƒummer of gode ylivier fergerD „ele™om ƒud€—ris ˆ Matchmaking between sntrodu™tion ˆ FLOSS development project Purpose ˆ Student Foreword ˆ Mentor involved in the day-to-day development of a sde—s —nd dis™ussion FLOSS project ˆ Interest of someone at Google ˆ $5000 stipend from Google ˆ Diverse projects, from very recent developments to core FSF projects like GCC ˆ Tasks : code, document, outreach, testing, research, training, translation, user interface ˆ Since 2005, nearly 2500 students and 2500 mentors from 98 countries
- 5. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH …se the potenti—l of gƒ students to ylivier fergerD help pvyƒƒ proje™ts „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose Foreword sde—s —nd dis™ussion ˆ FLOSS projects dene tasks which can be oered as an internship subject ˆ Important issue : what to expect from novice contributors ? ˆ Find mentors who can commit ˆ Motivation and engagement for students (recognition and nancial support)
- 6. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH ellow students to le—rn ylivier fergerD „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose ˆ Be confronted to real projects practices (collaboration, Foreword sde—s —nd distant work) dis™ussion ˆ Allow some students already involved in projects to be paid to do what they would have done in a volunteer way nevertheless ? ˆ Which prerequisites ? ˆ Who's helping them, tutoring them ? ˆ A lonesome geek in the basement for 3 months ?
- 7. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH fe ™omp—ti˜le with the ™urri™ulum ylivier fergerD rules „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose ˆ Validate credits Foreword sde—s —nd ˆ Manage risk of failure and subjectivity of evaluation dis™ussion independent of the student's skills ˆ Learn knowledge and competences ˆ Comply with internship requirements and regulations ˆ Optionally, autumn, winter or spring of code ? ˆ Issue : coordination with course, lab and ordinary project assignment activity ˆ FLOSS project as a replacement for a course or project assignment ?
- 8. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH fe ™omp—ti˜le with employment ylivier fergerD regul—tion @st—gesGinternshipsA „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose Foreword sde—s —nd dis™ussion ˆ Financial retribution scheme ˆ Workplace (collegues, socialization, learning company life) ?
- 9. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH qr—nts —nd sponsors ylivier fergerD „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion ˆ Companies interested in fostering RD activity in FLOSS Purpose projects Foreword sde—s —nd ˆ Way to detect talents (HR) dis™ussion ˆ Not directly drafting the subject (otherwise no dierent from regular internships) ? ˆ What is the critical mass ? ˆ How to dene success criteria with the company ? ˆ How to make sure companies commit to paying the grants ?
- 10. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH snvolvement of professors @˜eyond ylivier fergerD mentorsA c „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose Foreword sde—s —nd dis™ussion ˆ Monitoring the internship ˆ Probably with some interest in the project ˆ Some local initiatives exist already, provide them with more exposure and support ˆ Monitoring of local students only ?
- 11. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH qoogle ƒummer of gode @qƒogA ylivier fergerD exists „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose Foreword sde—s —nd dis™ussion ˆ GSoC is ne : no need to compete ˆ Compatibility with stages/internship requirements ? ˆ Legal aspects regarding grant payment ? ˆ Independent, non-prot organization is preferable in case of curricula integration
- 12. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH xeed for other progr—mmes c ylivier fergerD „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose Foreword ˆ Other initiatives (Mozilla drumbeat ?) sde—s —nd dis™ussion ˆ Google is already too big and powerful ˆ Many more projects and companies deserve to be in touch with the best students ˆ Every FLOSS project behind same banner ? ˆ Quality label only, to apply to regular internships ?
- 13. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH row to move on c ylivier fergerD „ele™om ƒud€—ris ˆ Who wants to get involved (professors, mentors, sntrodu™tion Purpose companies, students ?) Foreword sde—s —nd ˆ Which time frame ? dis™ussion ˆ Which rules ? ˆ What cost ? ˆ Potential start at System@tic cluster's GTLL special interest group on FLOSS ˆ Active support from IRILL : free software research and innovation initiative of INRIA, UPMC (P6), UPD (P7) ˆ Considering experiment with Android-related projects
- 14. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH gopyright 8 vi™ense ylivier fergerD „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose Foreword sde—s —nd dis™ussion ˆ This presentation is under CC-by-SA license ˆ Copyright (c) 2010 Olivier Berger, Albert Cohen ˆ Made with org-mode under emacs (org + beamer)
- 15. ƒummers of gode £ fop E pyƒƒe PHIH 8e ylivier fergerD „ele™om ƒud€—ris sntrodu™tion Purpose Thank you Foreword sde—s —nd Questions ? dis™ussion More @oberger : http://identi.ca/oberger/ email : mailto:olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu blog : http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/weblog/