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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Olivier Berger, Telecom SudParis
Tuesday 09/11/2010

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ˆ No, I'm not Albert Cohen (apologies, he's forced to rest at
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ˆ No, I haven't had time to prepare something really polished
ˆ Haven't participated myself so much in GSoC

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ˆ Research on collaborative development
platforms, tools, process, in FLOSS
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ˆ Previously worked in service companies (Cap
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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

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Purpose ˆ Student
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ˆ Mentor involved in the day-to-day development of a
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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

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ˆ Important issue : what to expect from novice contributors ?
ˆ Find mentors who can commit
ˆ Motivation and engagement for students (recognition and
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ˆ Allow some students already involved in projects to be paid
to do what they would have done in a volunteer way
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ˆ Which prerequisites ?
ˆ Who's helping them, tutoring them ?
ˆ A lonesome geek in the basement for 3 months ?

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Purpose ˆ Validate credits
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ˆ Manage risk of failure and subjectivity of evaluation
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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 ?

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ˆ Financial retribution scheme
ˆ Workplace (collegues, socialization, learning company life) ?

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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 ?

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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 ?

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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
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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 ?

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ˆ Who wants to get involved (professors, mentors,
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sde—s —nd ˆ Which time frame ?
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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

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gopyright 8 vi™ense
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ˆ Copyright (c) 2010 Olivier Berger, Albert Cohen
ˆ Made with org-mode under emacs (org + beamer)

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@oberger : http://identi.ca/oberger/
email : mailto:olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu
blog :
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