google summer of code

1. Decoding GSoC
Karm Patel
IISc Bangalore

2. All About GSoC
- Mentorship program sponsored
by google
- Promote the open source
contributions
- 12+ weeks duration
- Stipend around total 3000 $
(approx Rs 2.3 lacs!)
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3. Timeline
- 2022 timeline
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4. Roadmap
Prerequisites
Choose the
Organization
Start the
Contributions
Write a good
proposal
Approach your
mentor
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5. Prerequisites
- Programming Language
- Git
- Basic operations
- Make branch and creating PRs
- Debugger tool (vscode debugger)
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6. Select the organizations &
Start the contributions
- Before orgs announced:
- Explore past organizations
- See the codebase in github
- Improve your open source portfolio
with small contributions
- After orgs announced:
- Read the project ideas
- Pick 2-3 organizations
- Join the slack/discord/IRC channel
- Start contributions
- Approach your mentor
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7. Write a proposal
- Contains your goals, milestones
and deliverables
- Draft format is given by
organization
- Get reviewed by your mentor
before submitting
- Google guide
- My Proposal
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8. My journey to Tensorflow
- Project: Probabilistic ML book by Dr. Kevin Murphy
- Tasks related to this book
- Creating figures and writing educational demos using
JAX framework
- Started early March
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9. Tips
- Be in touch with your mentors
- Don’t hesitate to give your ideas in proposal
- Solve one or two tough issues.
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10. Questions?
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