Google Summer of Code 2015 presentation at LCA 2015 during plenary.

1. google-melange.com

2. Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is an online,
international program designed to
encourage university student participation
in open source software development.

3. Google Summer of Code
It started with the idea that university
students should spend their time outside of
school working in a field that would help
them with their studies and with their
career after university.

4. Google Summer of Code
The program provides the framework for
students to work for an open source
software organization by paying them a
stipend in exchange for their development
on the project.

5. What are the goals of the program?
Students get exposure to real-world
software development scenarios like
mailing list etiquette, working with fellow
developers across time zones, and using
source control.

6. What are the goals of the program?
Students get references and contacts in the
industry which helps them later when they
apply for jobs and want to network in their
field.

7. What are the goals of the program?
Many of the students who participate are
new to open source, which means the
organizations continue to identify and bring
in new developers each year.

8. What are the goals of the program?
The program gets more open source code
created and released for the benefit of all.
All of the projects the students produce are
publicly available at the end of the term for
anyone to access.

9. How does it work?
Early in the year (February) open source
software projects apply to be mentoring
organizations for the program.

10. How does it work?
Google chooses the organizations it would
like to participate in this year’s program and
announces them on the program website
(March).

11. How does it work?
Students submit project proposals (March)
to the mentoring organizations they’d like
to work with.

12. How does it work?
Mentoring organizations choose which
students they’d like to accept and then pairs
them with mentors to help them through
their project. The students are notified of
their acceptance in late April.

13. How does it work?
This student-mentor relationship is one of
the key aspects of Google Summer of Code.
It gives the student a great chance for
success and often produces lasting
connections in the community.

14. How does it work?
The students execute to milestones laid out
in their accepted project proposal over the
course of about 4 months (April - August).
They work closely with their mentor and
their mentoring organization.

15. How does it work?
The students and mentors both go through
two evaluations: a midterm and a final.
Students who pass their evaluations are
paid a stipend for their work.

16. How does it work?
At the end of the term students submit their
project to the program website for
everyone to see and use.

17. Google Summer of Code’s 10th Year
2014 marked the 10th instance of the
Google Summer of Code program.

18. Thank you to the community
For those of you who do know about this
program and have participated before, we
want to say THANK YOU to this community
for your participation over the last 10 years.
We couldn’t have done it without you!

19. Google Summer of Code’s 10th Year
We made some changes to the program
that will be staying in place for 2015.

20. Google Summer of Code’s 10th Year
We raised the student stipend in 2014 from
$5000 to $5500 for successful completion of
the whole program.

21. Google Summer of Code’s 10th Year
We accepted more students in Google
Summer of Code 2014’s program than ever
before (1,307).

22. Some interesting student statistics
Over the past 10 years 8,616 students have
been accepted into Google Summer of
Code.

23. Google Summer of Code’s 10th Year
We accepted more mentoring organizations
in Google Summer of Code’s 2014 program
than ever before (190).

24. Some interesting student statistics
Countries with the most students over the
last 10 years:
United States (1,957), India (1,473), and
Germany (601).

25. Some interesting student statistics
We’ve seen a trend of more students
participating from underrepresented and
developing nations in the last few years and
we hope to continue that in the future. We
can always use your help spreading the
word about the program in these places!

26. Some interesting student statistics
28 students from New Zealand and 83
students from Australia have participated
since the program started.

27. Some interesting student statistics
An estimated 50 million lines of code have
been produced by Google Summer of Code
student developers.

28. Some interesting student stories
We get a wide range of students in different
majors including history, dance, music,
cartography, linguistics, medicine,
philosophy, theology, languages, business,
international relations, film, and many
others.

29. Timeline
We’ll be accepting applications for
mentoring organizations in this year’s
program from 9 - 20 February.

30. Timeline
The list of accepted mentoring
organizations will be announced on 2 March
on the program website.

31. Timeline
The student application period is from
16 – 27 March.

32. Timeline
Accepted students are announced on
27 April.

33. Timeline
The “community bonding period” for the
program is from 27 April - 25 May. This
period is another way we give our
participating students the best chance of
success in the program.

34. Timeline
Students begin coding on 25 May.

35. Timeline
Mid-term evaluations begin on 26 June and
end on 3 July.

36. Timeline
Final evaluations begin on 21 August and
end on 28 August. Students are expected to
submit their code by 25 September.

37. Google Summer of Code is
rewarding
Mentors have told us over and over again
that the experience of mentoring a Google
Summer of Code student is incredibly
rewarding.

38. Google Summer of Code is
rewarding
Students and mentors form friendships that
last for years. The organizations’
communities are thriving and vibrant in part
due to their participation in Google Summer
of Code.

39. Useful links
Melange: http://www.google-melange.com
Google Summer of Code discussion list:
http://bit.ly/gsocdiscuss
Google Summer of Code student manual:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide
Google Summer of Code mentor manual:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring

40. google-melange.com
Thank You!