Google Summer of Code
101
A FOSS.MY Presentation
Raj Kissu Rajandran

What I'll Be Covering
● Summer of Code (SoC)
➔ What It Is
➔ When And Where It Is
➔ Why Participate
➔ How To Get Involved
● Preparations for SoC
● What's Expected During SoC

About Me ...
● I'm Raj Kissu Rajandran
● APIIT Student
● Pursuing Software Engineering
● Working at QubeConnect Sdn. Bhd. as a part-time
software developer
● Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast
● GsoC 2008 Student

What Is It?

● Suggested by Sergey and Larry
● Named after the Summer of Love
● Involves many OSS groups
● Students from various educational
backgrounds

● Students propose and complete an open
source project
● ONLY students can propose projects
● Signup as a mentor to guide students

Summer of Code
Goals

Get more OSS code out in the open
Get students to contribute
Provide students exposure
Identify potential developers
NOT a recruiting program

When And Where Is It
Held?

Held all over the world
Annually since 2005
Normally between May and August
Duration of 4 months
– 1 month for community bonding
– 3 months for coding

Why Join Summer of
Code?

Coding Experience

Mentorship

Meet Other GSoCers

A Gift From Google

Google SoC T-Shirt

Certificate of
Participation

Cash Incentive - $4500!! (approx. R16k)

How Do I Join SoC?

Choose an organisation
Get an idea:
– Come up with your own
– Or get one from the SoC Ideas list
Write a proposal
Register as a Google Student and submit it
Cross your fingers and await approval

Community Bonding

Contact your mentors
Familiarise yourself with the mentoring
organisation
Get to know other GsoCers
Understand what's expected of you
Finalise your project approach

Actual Coding

Coding starts in June
Consists of 12 weeks
Submit weekly reports
Focus on code, not documentation
Implement coding standards
Anything else your mentors tell you

Midterm Evaluation

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Takes place during the 7 week
A workable release of the project should be
available
Complete the Midterm Survey
Await approval

Final Evaluation

Takes place on the last week – Week 12
All coding should be done by this week
Spruce up code
Provide documentation
– Usage documentation
– Technical documentation (code comments)

Complete the Final Survey
Once again, wait for approval
Failure! Better luck next time
Success! Prepare a tarball of your project for
your submission to Google

How You Get Paid!

GsoC Student Debit
Card

Payment broken into three segments
First payment ($500) during Week 1
Second payment ($2000) after
Midterm evaluation
Final payment ($2000) after Final evaluation

Project Demonstration

Things To Remember
● SoC proliferates Open Source Software
● Open Source encourages sharing of
knowledge
● Contribute to Open Source
● Join the next Summer of Code!

For Further Info ...
Google Summer of Code:
– http://code.google.com/soc/
BLOBStreaming:
– http://www.blobstreaming.org
My SoC Blog: http://code.kissu.org
Email me at rajkissu@gmail.com

Q&A

THANKS FOR
LISTENING!