GCC has been accepted as GSoC 2024 mentoring organization

[Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>]

Hello everyone,

I am pleased that I can announce that we have been accepted to be a GSoC
mentoring organization also in 2024!.

This also means that students are now really starting to look at our
idea page and so if anyone wants to add a project, it is still possible
but we should not delay it much longer.

Thanks to everyone who helped me with this so far. I am very happy that
we'll get this chance to attract new contributors this year too.

Martin



On Mon, Jan 15 2024, Martin Jambor wrote:
> Hello,
>
> another year has passed, Google has announced there will be again Google
> Summer of Code (GsoC) in 2024 and the deadline for organizations to
> apply is already approaching (February 6th).  I'd like to volunteer to
> be the main org-admin for GCC again but let me know if you think I
> shouldn't or that someone else should or if you want to do it instead.
> Otherwise I'll assume that I will and I hope that I can continue to rely
> on David Edelsohn and Thomas Schwinge to back me up and help me with
> some decision making along the way as my co-org-admins.
>
> ======================== The most important bit: ========================
>
> I would like to ask all (moderately) seasoned GCC contributors to
> consider mentoring a contributor this year and ideally also come up with
> a project that they would like to lead.  I'm collecting proposal on our
> wiki page https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode - feel free to add yours
> to the top list there.  Or, if you are unsure, post your offer and
> project idea as a reply here to the mailing list.
>
> Additionally, if you have added an idea to the list in the recent years,
> please review it whether it is still up-to-date or needs adjusting or
> should be removed altogether.
>
> =========================================================================
>
> At this point, we need to collect list of project ideas.  Eventually,
> each listed project idea should have:
>
>   a) a project title,
>   b) more detailed description of the project (2-5 sentences),
>   c) expected outcomes (we do have a catch-almost-all formulation that
>      outcome is generally patches at the bottom of the list on the
>      wiki),
>   d) skills required/preferred,
>   e) project size - whether it is expected to take approximately 350,
>      175 or just 90 hours (the last option in new in 2024, see below),
>   f) difficulty (easy, hard or medium, but we don't really have easy
>      projects), and
>   g) expected mentors.
>
> Project ideas that come without an offer to also mentor them are always
> fun to discuss, by all means feel free to reply to this email with yours
> and I will attempt to find a mentor, but please be aware that we can
> only use the suggestion it if we actually find one or ideally two.
>
> Everybody in the GCC community is invited to go over
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode and remove any outdated or
> otherwise bad project suggestions and help improve viable ones.
>
> Finally, please continue helping (prospective) students figure stuff out
> about GCC like you have always done in the past.
>
> As far as I know, GSoC 2024 should be quite similar to the last year,
> the most important parameters probably are these:
>
>   - Contributors (formerly students) must either be full-time students
>     or be "beginners to open source."
>
>   - There are now three project sizes: roughly 90 hors (small), roughly
>     175 hours (medium-sized) and roughly 350 hours (large) of work in
>     total.  The small option is new this year but because our projects
>     usually have a lengthy learning period, I think we will usually want
>     to stick to the medium and large variants.
>
>   - Timing should be pretty much as flexible as last year.  The
>     recommended "standard" duration is 12 weeks but depending on
>     contributor's and mentor's needs and circumstances, projects can
>     take anywhere between 10 and 22 weeks.  There will be one mid-term
>     and one final evaluation.
>
> For further details you can see:
>
>   - The announcement of GSoC 2024:
>     https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/11/google-summer-of-code-2024-celebrating-20th-year.html
>
>   - GSoC rules:
>     https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/rules
>
>   - The detailed GSoC 2024 timeline:
>     https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>
>   - Elaborate project idea guidelines:
>     https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list
>
> Thank you very much for your participation and help.  Let's hope we
> attract some great contributors again this year.
>
> Martin