Ed Great to see this. To save the dev list some chatter, perhaps you can post some general guidance at:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2022/organizations/the-mifos-initiative - How to introduce yourself on list (applying for GSOC, getting to know the project, interested in ...) - What kind of things you may want to start with / i.e. read the FAQs, scan the tickets, check out https://www.fineract.dev - How do you most easily get a dev environment started (links) - How do you engage on the list (hint: read archives first, then post ) Do we also have Apache Fineract GSOC organized separately? Thanks, On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 6:21 PM Ed Cable <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm delighted to share the news that Mifos has been selected as a > mentoring org for the tenth time. We're eager to return back after a > one-year hiatus - this direct participation will allow us to onboard and > interact with a larger number of interns and take on projects across all of > our codebases and not just the Apache Fineract ones. Mifos' participation > as a mentoring org will be in addition to whatever interns Fineract can > bring on under Apache Software Foundation. > > Thanks to all the mentors who have expressed willingness to be a mentor > thus far. If you haven't already expressed interest and would like to - > please fill out the form that's been shared previously - > https://forms.gle/sFsYKdk4DtnvWmFM9 > > If you meet our criteria for being a mentor, I'll invite you to register > as a mentor through the GSOC portal. We really need committed and engaged > mentors and will only seek out interns for projects where we have both a > primary and secondary mentor confirmed and committed. > > @Sanyam Goel <[email protected]> and @Rahul Goel > <[email protected]> will be helping with Org Admin duties this year > so please collaborate with them on the following topics: > > *Changes in 2022* > As a reminder, the program has some major changes this year: > > (1) Starting in 2022, the program will be *open to all newcomers of open > source* that are 18 years and older, *no longer focusing solely on > university students**.* > (2) GSoC Contributors will be able to choose from multiple size projects > ~175 hour (medium) and 350 hour (large). > (3) Google is building increased flexibility around the timing of > projects - there is an option to extend the standard 12 week coding time > frame to a maximum of 22 weeks > > *2022 Project Scope* > Our projects will cut across our entire stack from the Fineract back-end > to our mobile and web apps for staff and customers. We will also be trying > to target some projects around OpenG2P and the Payment Hub EE this year as > well. > > *Next Steps* > While the intern application period isn't open for submissions until April > 4 to April 19. Up until then is a crucial period when we will hopefully be > inundated with interest from applicants and will need high involvement and > engagement from mentors as applicants interact with the community and share > pull requests which will be the most important part of their applications. > > Here's our official student-facing page on the Google Summer of Code site: > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2022/organizations/the-mifos-initiative > > I'll share a post to our blog soon too and we'll be hosting a Mifos GSOC > AMA (Ask Me Anything) for all aspiring interns on Friday April 1 at 1300GMT > - you can register here: > https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2016485166342/WN_ZW6Ij83gRxCueea85bjEwA > > We need to finalize our list of projects and mentor assignments prior to > April 4 so I welcome any mentors to assist in this process and if you have > an idea that you haven't listed, do list it now - > > We will have a meeting of all mentors this Thursday at 1300GMT via Zoom - > https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsdu6grTspHtMTDGNWI1Stiz-PnPCfGupv > > For now here a few items of homework to participate as a mentor: > > 1) *Join the meeting this Thursday at 1300GMT (* > https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsdu6grTspHtMTDGNWI1Stiz-PnPCfGupv > ) > > 2) *Learn what it means to mentor* - Read up on the GSOC mentors manual > at https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/ and what we look for in > students and how we evaluate them in this video: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxBX7Sbqv0 > > 3) *Add yourself as a mentor on Google GSOC site*: Accept the invite to > mentor that you will be receiving soon. > > 4) *Join discussion group and slack channel* - Most of you are already > on this from previous years. If not, confirm your subscription to our > internal discussion group for mentors - we'll use for sending > communications amongst mentors. You should receive an invite for this group > at: https://groups.google.com/a/mifos.org/forum/#!forum/gsoc-mentors. I > will invite you to #gsoc-mentors slack channel . > > 5)* Refine project ideas *- this is a critical step to refine the ideas, > remove ones we won't move forward with and definitely assign mentors to > ideas. I will be sending separate emails on this topic. > > https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/RES/pages/3004891137/Google+Summer+of+Code+2022+Ideas > > 6)* Be active* - join our Gitter chatroom and Slack, respond to mailing > list inquiries, participate in community meetings! > > *Cheers,* > > *Ed* >
