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🎉 Announcing 10 Summer of Code projects for 2018 #2653

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jywarren opened this issue Apr 23, 2018 · 69 comments
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🎉 Announcing 10 Summer of Code projects for 2018 #2653

jywarren opened this issue Apr 23, 2018 · 69 comments
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jywarren commented Apr 23, 2018 •
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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

We're happy to announce we're accepting 9 students through Google Summer of Code this season. This is almost double last year's 5 slots, and reflects big, positive changes in our community this past year.

Update: we've just also heard that Rails Girls Summer of Code was announced and we will be working with one team of two from that program as well -- welcome @stefannibrasil @milaaraujo!!!! 🎉 😀 🙌

We've seen a dramatic rise in newcomers over the past year (read more here), and over a dozen contributors emerged as community leaders, not only championing larger and more complex projects, but also welcoming in and supporting newcomers to grow our community. Many of this year's students are in this group.

Congratulations and thanks: MaggPi, @Gauravano @namangupta01 @ViditChitkara @tech4GT @mridulnagpal @SidharthBansal @sagarpreet-chadha @Souravirus

See all the proposals here: https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/02-15-2018/call-for-summer-of-code-2018-proposals

And read a copy of this post and see a list of the proposals for this summer here:

https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/04-23-2018/announcing-9-google-summer-of-code-projects-for-2018

We'd also like to thank those who have made it possible, through their supportive mentoring, for our community to see such successes (@publiclab/reviewers, @publiclab/soc @publiclab/community-reps and more) -- including those who help (beyond coding) to shape the course of our software projects by proposing new features, and those who help to set the positive, welcoming tone that makes our project one which people want to join.

Congratulations to our 9 summer projects, and thanks also to those whose projects weren't selected. We wish we could work with all of you, and we deeply appreciate what you contribute.

PS: For a cool animation of our collaboration, check out this page and press RUN: http://ghv.artzub.com/#repo=plots2&climit=100&user=publiclab
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SidharthBansal commented Apr 23, 2018 •
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Thanks a lot all the mentors. It is a lovely to work with you all. 😁

@MayankKashyap
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Thank you all

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And also congrats to all students

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tech4GT commented Apr 23, 2018

Thanks a ton😃

@Souravirus
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Congrats everyone

@sagarpreet-chadha
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Congratulations to everyone and thank you to all the amazing mentors 😃 🎈 !

@ananyo2012
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Congrats everyone 😄

@grvsachdeva
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Congratulations everyone and thanks to all the mentors for your support 🙌 ✨ 🎉 😄 .

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Congratulations everyone!! Thanks to all the mentors for their motivation and support.🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Congratulations everyone! And thanks to all the mentors. Let's start an amazing journey of coding this summer.

@Souravirus
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Like those animations that was quite cool. Thanks!!

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Hahaha! yes.

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And hello, can @publiclab/mentors in particular but really any @publiclab/reviewers introduce themselves briefly? @publiclab/reviewers feel free to mention where you are in the world (if you like) and what projects at Public Lab you've been working on?

Can mentors please also leave a comment on https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/04-23-2018/announcing-9-google-summer-of-code-projects-for-2018 so we can mention you on the Public Lab site as well? At least say I'm a mentor! so we know. Thank you!

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I'll start -- I'm in Providence, Rhode Island, in the US. I do a little bit of everything but my passion in software is long-term contributor community health and helping contributors take leadership in the community. Also, I really like tidy, readable JavaScript 😀

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siaw23-retired commented Apr 23, 2018 via email •
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I'm from India. Currently I am pursuing my B.Tech from National institute of technology Hamirpur. And I am a mentor of 4 different GSOC projects(Image sequencer, Email Integration Project and two more) of Public Lab. I like coding but I am also good in Management.

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ebarry commented Apr 24, 2018

Hi everyone ☀️,
Congrats to all whose proposals were accepted, and even if yours wasn't, please know that you are appreciated and that your contributions are valued!
Thank you to everyone who has been interacting already, it's like the first day of school around here :)
I'm similar to @steviepubliclab in that I spend a lot of time on publiclab.org and work with people who come to collaborate on environmental concerns. I also work on evaluation stuff such as surveys, feedback loops, and (ideally) organizational learning! I love maps. I live in Brooklyn. I am trying (unsuccessfully) to learn Mandarin. I would like to help people in Summer of Code projects meet each other in person (apparently we have a large Delhi cohort???) Let's have a great summer all!

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Hi everyone! Just wanted to drop by and say Hello. Congrats to all GSoC students who got selected this year. Happy to see so many of you this year! The community is growing large 😃 I am Ananyo, a past GSoC student and mentor at publiclab. I have been a part of the @publiclab/reviewers and @publiclab/soc teams. It has been a great time working with publiclab and I hope you guys are having a good time as well as I see the publiclab chatroom is filled with conversation these days 😊 Though I haven't been getting time to get involved these days due to my work I would surely like to pitch in for discussions and Code Reviews. Presently I am located at Hyderabad, India. Would love to meet if anyone is near my location! Wish everyone a great summer ahead !

@jywarren @steviepubliclab @ebarry Hello to all of you as well! 😄 How have you all been doing?

@jywarren jywarren changed the title 🎉 Announcing 9 Google Summer of Code projects for 2018 🎉 Announcing 10 Summer of Code projects for 2018 Apr 24, 2018
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Big update: we've also just heard that Rails Girls Summer of Code was announced and we will be working with one team of two from that program as well -- welcome @stefannibrasil @milaaraujo!!!! 🎉 😀 🙌

We're SO HAPPY to be working with you all -- THANK YOU!!!

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Also there's a great video 🎥 of the RGSoC teams finding out about their projects being accepted -- awesome 😄

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grvsachdeva commented Apr 24, 2018 •
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Congratulations @stefannibrasil @milaaraujo 🎉 !!! That's actually nice way to announce result by RGSoC team 😄

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Souravirus commented Apr 24, 2018 •
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congratulations @stefannibrasil @milaaraujo . Really liked the way they announced the results.

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SidharthBansal commented Apr 24, 2018 •
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Congratulations @stefannibrasil @milaaraujo. I will really like to work with you all this summer.
@jywarren How about making a soc team as you did last yr for all 11 (9 gsoc + 2 rgsoc) candidates??

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@SidharthBansal great, absolutely. I'll invite everyone to the team shortly. Thanks!

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tech4GT commented Apr 24, 2018

Congratulations @steffanibrasil @milaarujo 🎉

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Thank you, guys!!!! =)))

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Thank you and Congrats to everyone!! I am looking forward to working with you and I am really happy to be joining you this summer =)

PS. It was a lovely surprise, right?!

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ebarry commented May 7, 2018 via email

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Not really, 👍 from my side.

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siaw23-retired commented May 7, 2018 via email

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@siaw23 I think https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Publiclab+SoC+commencement+live+call&iso=20180508T1530&p1=1440 ought to work for everyone.

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@ebarry due to family problems I am going to home tomorrow and I am fully unavailable for 2 days. But during travel I may be able(not surely) to join you people for some time.
Sorry for that.

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ebarry commented May 7, 2018

Great thanks @ryzokuken ! How about other folks who would end up with a mid-late evening meeting time?

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tech4GT commented May 7, 2018

@ebarry I am fine with 9pm 😄

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9 pm sounds great 😸 !

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ebarry commented May 7, 2018

Hi @siaw23 ! I believe Poland time is the same as Israel time, i updated the timezone listings in the Event invitation to have these dual listings, and I believe the local time where you are will be 3:30pm OR if we move back 2 hours as we are discussing will be 5:30pm.

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ebarry commented May 7, 2018

Ok so sad to hear that @MayankKashyap won't be joining us tomorrow and that @abTest-123 is a maybe (but there will be future calls!) I'm waiting to hear back from @stefannibrasil and @milaaraujo about whether pushing the call 2 hours forward to 8:30AM their time would work? Thank you! 🌮

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Yes, thanks, @ebarry for the reschedule! It works for us :) See you tomorrow then!

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Souravirus commented May 7, 2018 •
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@ebarry 9:00 pm would be great for me. But is it confirmed that video call will take place at 9:00 pm coz I don't see any update in time in the public lab website.

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ebarry commented May 7, 2018

Hi and thanks all -- that was a quick rescheduling :). I've updated the note here:
Tomorrow, May 8, 2018 at 8:30am Vancouver, 10:30am New Orleans and Peru, 11:30am NYC and Providence, 5:30pm Israel and Poland, 9:00pm Delhi, 11:30pm mainland China, we will be convening on https://meet.jit.si/publiclab

For some other timezones, see http://everytimezone.com/#2018-5-8,1650,b8jj

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ebarry commented May 8, 2018

Hi folks! We will begin in 13 minutes :)

I might have gotten the timezones wrong for Israel - sorry @abTest-123 !!! This means i also might have gotten the times wrong for Poland - hope i didn't mess you up @siaw23 !

See everyone soon :)

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I might be a few minutes late, but will try to jump in ASAP

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jywarren commented May 8, 2018

Hi, all - just checking in with the 4 points I made during the call (some will be repetitive, sorry!):

  1. Create planning issues -- with a checklist! -- from your proposals -- read more here to help coordinate your work with others
  2. Try creating a first-timers-only issue from one of your checklist items -- learn more here -- to bring other people into your project, and slowly build a team over the course of the summer
  3. Use CodeClimate to find suggestions on how to make your code more readable and maintainable
  4. Talk to each other! Don't get stuck - ask for help; we're all here to help each other out. Use the chatroom, post an issue, and also remember to offer help (like reviewing PRs, troubleshooting) to each other and to newcomers.

It was great seeing you all -- thanks and get ready for a great summer!

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jywarren commented May 8, 2018

@publiclab/soc see above! Thank you!!!

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Also @MargaretAN9 I'm going to respond to your excellent questions on your proposal page -- at least for now! Thanks!

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Hi, everyone!!! Just wanted to say to the GSoC folks -- welcome to your first day!!! How are things going? Where are people starting out?

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@publiclab/soc

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Hi jeff !
Was busy with exams earlier , will resume back today . Very excited :)

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hi @jywarren, everything fine here 😃. Working on completion of the draft feature.

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Hi @jywarren, I am fine. Working on user_tag and user_session for fb login.

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Hi @jywarren, I am working on upgradation of gems currently. Hope it completes in time. Thanks!!

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Hi @jywarren, working on digest emails.

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tech4GT commented May 19, 2018

Hi @jywarren I'm starting off on the blend module!!😀

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jywarren commented May 19, 2018 via email

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Moving over to a weekly update cycle using the outreach tag -- thanks everyone!!!!

Next up: #2739

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