A-Z to Open Source

Google Summer of Code

A 3 months long remote internship(computer science related projects) with an open source organization sponsored by Google.

Outreachy

Open Source - Getting started

• Find an organization/project
• Join the mailing lists, IRC/Slack/Gitter channels
• Get a quick overview of the code/repository
• Find some basic issues on Github/JIRA, etc.
• Introduce yourself to the community
• Ask dumb questions
• Be active in the community

*Applies for any open source project, GSOC, Outreachy, Google Code In, etc.

Research and Start Early

Finding Organizations

• Go through the ideas pages from previous years
• Sort organizations working in your domain
• Are these projects interesting enough?
• Filter organizations - focus on one project or two at max

Start Early

• More time to get familiar with the codebase
• More time to contribute
• More time to get acquainted with the community

Contribution

Not Competition

Help other candidates, even if they are applying for the same project

Final Proposal

• Not as significant as you think
• Ask the organization if they have an existing template
• Discuss with the mentor of the project
• Break it down to weekly deliverables
• Keep Buffer time after each 3-4 weeks
• Try to keep the deadline at least 1 week earlier to the actual internship deadline

Keep on contributing after submitting your proposal

What do you gain?

Keep on Contributing...

Thank you :)