GSoC: How to get prepared and write a good proposal (or how to start contributing with FLOSS)

GSoC: How to get prepared and write a good proposal (or how to start contributing with FLOSS) Jo˜o Paulo Rechi Vita a jprvita@gmail.com http://jprvita.wordpress.com/ July 22, 2010

What is Google Summer of Code? Flip bits not burgers!

GSoC Overview US$5k Mentor One month for community bounding Three month for code development Two evaluations

How to get in the game? FLOSS / GSoC

How to get in the game? Choose a project you like :)

How to get in the game? Choose a project you like :) (or at least one you use)

Choose a project you like 150 participating organizations (2010) 1 1 http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted orgs/google/gsoc2010

Find the source, Neo

The source VCS Git o/, Subversion :( , Bazaar, Mercurial Get the code, change between revisions, generate a diﬀ

The source VCS Git o/, Subversion :( , Bazaar, Mercurial Get the code, change between revisions, generate a diff Compile configure && make && make install local installation (gnu stow, $HOME/local, /usr/local) $PATH, $LD LIBRARY PATH, $PYTHONPATH understand the configure process

The source VCS Git o/, Subversion :( , Bazaar, Mercurial Get the code, change between revisions, generate a diff Compile configure && make && make install local installation (gnu stow, $HOME/local, /usr/local) $PATH, $LD LIBRARY PATH, $PYTHONPATH understand the configure process Run

Community Bounding

Community Bounding People

Community Bounding People Documentation Mailing lists IRC

Community Bounding – Documentation RTMF!

Community Bounding – Documentation RTMF! IF the F* Manual F* Exists !!

Community Bounding – Documentation RTMF! IF the F* Manual F* Exists !! Use the source, Luke

Community Bounding – Mailing Lists Archives are you friends :) Use plain text Don’t hijack threads Write a useful subject line Language

Community Bounding – Mailing Lists Archives are you friends :) Use plain text Don’t hijack threads Write a useful subject line Language Don’t top post!

Community Bounding – Mailing Lists >Because it changes the natural order of phrases. Why top posting is so bad?

Community Bounding – Mailing Lists How to ask questions the smart way http://www.catb.org/˜esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Community Bounding – IRC Nicks /whois Channel topic Don’t ask to ask, just ask! Answers come faster if you know who to ask

Get Involved

Get Involved – Getting Kudos IRC – hang out and answer questions ML – answer questions / review patches Localization Talk / Post about your project (patches, howto’s)

Get Involved – Finding tasks Issue tracker / bugzilla TODO / HACKING ﬁles Mailing list GSoC project ideas (ask potential mentors)

When to start? NOW!

GSoC Proposal Discuss the idea with the community Organization template Explain the implementation Schedule Why should you be the chosen one?

GSoC Proposal – Examples A2DP Sink (BlueZ/2009) http://jprvita.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/gsoc09-is- up-and-running/ AVRCP Metadata (BlueZ/2010) http://jprvita.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/avrcp- metadata/

Questions? Jo˜o Paulo Rechi Vita a jprvita@gmail.com http://jprvita.wordpress.com/ Some ideas from this talk were based this LH’s talk: http://www.slideshare.net/lhawthorn/getting-started-in-free-and-open- source-software This presentation is available at http://slideshare.net/jprvita under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

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