Google Summer of Code Getting Started

How to get started with GSoC with OpenSCAD

Read the documentation

Google provides extensive documentation, including a student guide and FAQs. The OpenCAx site provides more detailed documentation how OpenSCAD, in collaboration with BRL-CAD handles the projects.

• Google: How it works
• OpenCAx: Org specific guidelines

The Code, compile and run the application

Decide which platform you want to work on, OpenSCAD supports Linux, macOS and Windows. Getting a working development environment is maybe easiest on Linux, but macOS (e.g. with Homebrew) and Windows (e.g. with MSYS2) will work too.

Get the latest code from github and compile. Being able to build OpenSCAD is key preparation for GSoC.

Discussions & Questions

If you have questions, be specific and provide context. A general "guide me" is not going to work. Provide details people can look at like:

• Which operating system / distribution are you working on?
• Which command did you run that failed?
• What error message did you get?

Join the IRC channel #openscad on freenode for more direct chat, but consider people are in different time zones and may not watch messages all the time, so stay around for answers or tell us you'll review the logs for answers later.