How my
Google Summer of Code project can help bring new contributors to
Open Source
Something About Me
Shashank Kumar | realslimshanky
Google Summer of Code 2018 Student for Debian
My Developer Story and Blog
What is Google Summer of Code
A Global Program
Annual Open Source Contribution Festival
1264 Students selected for 2018
206 Organizations participating in 2018
About The Debian Project
Associate of individuals making free and open source operating system - Debian
My mentor organization
My Preparations for GSoC
Began exploring projects 3, 4 months before proposal submissions
Found my spark with Debian
Summarized everything in blogs
My GSoC Project
Project Title - Wizard/GUI helping students/interns apply and get started
Project Idea - Debian Project Wiki
Finished Application - New Contributor Wizard
New Contributor Wizard
New Contributor Wizard
Objectives
Build a GUI application using Python
Allow users to learn about various technologies from one place using TUTORIALS
Help them experiment and get started from the same place using TOOLS
Application should be progressive to bring new TUTORIALS and TOOLS
New Contributor Wizard
Key Constructs
Sign Up
Sign In
Dashboard
Tutorials and Tools Menu
Tools
Tutorial
New Contributor Wizard
Sign Up
Takes necessary information about the user with validation
Updates the database in order to create an account
Redirects the user to the Dashboard
New Contributor Wizard
Sign In
Takes email and password about the user
Validates the information and verifies using the database
Redirects the user to the Dashboard after success
New Contributor Wizard
Dashboard
Contains all the course ware sections to learn from
Each course ware section contains Tools and Tutrorials
It makes it easier to move around different sections
New Contributor Wizard
Tutorials and Tools Menu
Provides a beautiful scrollable menu with visual aids for difficulty levels
This feature can be abstracted for any course ware section
Adds an additional block to link project repository for contributions
New Contributor Wizard
Tutorial
is a collection of Lessons
A Tutorial Parser helps build Tutorial from just a JSON file
Each lesson contains texts, images, questions and code snippets
New Contributor Wizard
Tool
Provides in-place method to experiment with technologies
A way to practice what one learns in Tutorials
It takes basic knowledge of Kivy to build one
How to build Tutorial
If you know what a JSON file is you can built a Tutorial
Follow the documentation
How to build Tool
Knowledge of Kivy and Python is required
Follow the documentation
Special Mention
