Hi Vivek, Nick, Akhil, Nayeem, Congratulations on your GSoC acceptance!! And welcome to Apache Airavata.
I am sure you have pointers to GSoC guides in your acceptance emails, in addition to student guide (https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/ <https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/>), review the mentor guide as well (https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/community-basics <https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/community-basics>). Do follow the readings on “How to ask good questions”. A key GSoC aspect to remember: community engagement. Above and beyond summer coding which you are anyway expected to contribute significantly, more importantly you should be very active in mailing lists and ask and answer questions. All of you have scored below par on mailing list communications and hoping you will fix this during the community bonding period and beyond. Your first mid-term evaluation is June 29th, so few logistic things will be required from all of you (try to get these by May 15th): * Post your updated/modified proposal to Airavata Wiki - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/GSoC+2020 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/GSoC+2020> include the following as a minimum: * Create a detailed and clear description of the problem you will tackle between now and June 29th. Yes, lets break this into three phase. Second one due July 27th and final one due August 24th. It is totally fine if your problem changes from your original proposal. Lets document the updated goal. * Crete a good description on how your solution to the above problem will look like. * Also discuss of any alternative solutions and featured you considered. * Describe how to evaluate/test your solution. It is expected that your understanding (as well as the communities understanding) of the problem and feasible solutions will evolve over emmer. Thats fine, but keep this document updated as you go. Lastly, write weekly sprint updates as child pages to the wiki and post them to this list as well. Here is a good example project to follow: Proposal - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/%5BGSoC+Proposal%5D+Securing+Airavata+API <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/[GSoC+Proposal]+Securing+Airavata+API> Design document (submitted in community bonding period, notice the detailed updates since proposal) - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58851790 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58851790> Weekly sprints - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/Sprint+1 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/Sprint+1> and https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/Sprint+2 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/Sprint+2> Mid-term evaluation (your June 29th evaluation will be based on such a report) - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/Update+for+the+mid+evaluation <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/Update+for+the+mid+evaluation> Welcome on board and happy coding, Cheers, Suresh
