Welcome GSoC 2020 applicants and Call for proposals

[cesswairimu]

Hello awesome GSoC applicant 👋 and welcome to PublicLab 🎈

We are glad to have you here. This year, we are participating in Google Summer of Code(GSoc) under DIAL. Here are a few todos

Introduce yourself

Please say hi below and introduce yourself(optional)

Call for GSoC proposals

We request applicants to post their proposals on the PublicLab website. Here is a link to call of proposals to the PL website, which also has a template for drafting the template, sample proposals for past inters and helpful pointers while drafting the proposals.
Kindly submit early and post a link on gitter so that contributors and mentors can give feedback and help you improve on your proposal.

Contributions 👨‍💻 👩‍💻

To become more familiar with the codebase, we encourage applicants to start contributing to the codebase during the application process. Find issues with the label fto soc to get started on the codebase. You can also get first-timer-issues here https://code.publiclab.org/

Questions 🤔

If you have any questions please leave a comment below and we will get back to you.

These tips are general tips.
Are you tensed? overwhelmed? No need to worry!!! : We all are there to help you at each stage of the way. Feel free to reach out in case of anything. Folks are super friendly here 😄

[saurabhkanswal]

Hey @emilyashley can you please provide some more information on this (https://publiclab.org/wiki/gsoc-ideas#Leaflet+Environmental+Layers+(LEL):+time+slider+UI ) idea. so i can start with proposal.
As of now all i can understand is that this idea is about adding new control native to LEL library like we have zoom, scale, layers control in leaflet.
your comments are welcomed.😃

[alaxalves]

Hello guys I'm Alax, but I think most people already know me here from last year's GSoC program. I intend to work this year again for 2020 GSoC in the DevOps upgrades on Spectral Workbench. My proposal is available here. Everyone feel free to comment and suggest any changes there. I have already started working on some of the Spectral Workbench upgrades. Currently I have a PR opened there I'd like some review on, the PR is at publiclab/spectral-workbench#470. Thanks guys

[gr455]

Hi everyone, I am Ruturaj from India. A freshman at International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. I have been a part of PL for about 3 months now and it has been great and I have leart a lot of things on my way 😄
Update: here's my proposal

[Tlazypanda]

Hey everyone! @cesswairimu @jywarren @emilyashley Just wanted to know if I can submit my proposal for Outreachy for Gsoc as well. The Outreachy website states that if you are a student its better to apply for both the programs. My only concern is the topic I have chosen is not listed in the gsoc ideas for this year. Would this pose as a problem? Thanks 😄

[cesswairimu]

@Tlazypanda yeah you def can

[cesswairimu]

Hi all, I have reviewed most of the proposals and left some feedback. I will go through the rest within the week. If you have a PR that has been waiting for review for a while ..feel free to mention it here and ping me...It easier to track it from here than on the PRs I could miss it amidst the hundreds of the emails notifications. Thanks

[sssash18]

@SidharthBansal @jywarren @cesswairimu Please provide your views on Accesslint(in Automatic linting of PR) in my proposal as I have to include it in my proposal before the deadline:https://publiclab.org/notes/suyash1814/03-07-2020/gsoc-2020-proposal-site-wide-accessiblity-on-publiclab-org

[gr455]

Hi @cesswairimu . Can you please review publiclab/spectral-workbench#483 and publiclab/spectral-workbench#490 . Thanks :)

[cesswairimu]

@sssash18 @gr455 I will take a look within the day. Thanks

[SidharthBansal]

To all GSoC applicants, Google has changed its timeline for GSoC.please have a look at new timeline at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline

[SidharthBansal]

Students are requested to post the proposal on the Google website asap!

[gr455]

@SidharthBansal do you mean the draft or the final pdf?

[neelesh17]

Hey @SidharthBansal @sagarpreet-chadha @crisner can you please provide some more information on this (https://publiclab.org/wiki/gsoc-ideas#Leaflet+Environmental+Layers+(LEL):+time+slider+UI ) idea.

[sagarpreet-chadha]

Hey @neelesh17 and everyone interested in that project, so the aim of the project is that we have a lot of data for each layers, hence we want a functionality to filter data on the basis of time (range). The most common UI is a TIME SLIDER (on map) which one may have seen on various websites.
Saying that we are open on better UI options with better UX.
I hope this helps! Thanks :)

[Tlazypanda]

@cesswairimu Thanks for taking the time out to review all our prs!! 🎉 Adding a couple more that need to be reviewed
#7687 - ( issue description modified to add full before and after screenshot)
#7607 - (approved)
#7611 - (issue description changed just to reflect the social icon alignment and pr changes removed)
#7605 - (clarification added)

[neelesh17]

Hey @neelesh17 and everyone interested in that project, so the aim of the project is that we have a lot of data for each layers, hence we want a functionality to filter data on the basis of time (range). The most common UI is a TIME SLIDER (on map) which one may have seen on various websites.
Saying that we are open on better UI options with better UX.
I hope this helps! Thanks :)

@sagarpreet-chadha but isn't this issue alone is a little small for gsoc, if you could suggest any other issue it would be really helpfull.

[cesswairimu]

@Tlazypanda I checked out the PRs. Thanks

[cesswairimu]

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Check out the 2019 report here: https://publiclab.org/notes/liz/04-15-2019/report-2019-software-contributors-survey. We are going to do the same "chart-n-graphs" treatment for 2020 but before we can begin, we need more than 38 people to fill out this survey! That's right, so far only 38 people have filled the 2020 survey even though we have more active contributors than ever. In 2019, 63 people filled out the survey. Let's exceed last year's response rate! Please click here to improve our data quality: https://forms.gle/Q9BNduRGzsLrALxi7

Thank you for all you do!
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Originally posted by @ebarry in #7711 (comment)

[cesswairimu]

Thank you everyone for applying with PublicLab. We had great proposals from all you and with PublicLab participating as a sub org we had few slots but we would have loved to take in more..For those who did not get selected, please know that we are extremely grateful for your work with us to date and that we welcome you to continue being part of this community. Thank you for understanding and we hope you’ll apply again ❤️