On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 14:32, Ilaria Battiston <ilaria.battis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings -hackers, > > Our beloved Google Summer of Code is back for 2022! They have once again > changed some of how GSoC is going to work for this year, for a variety > of reasons, so please be sure to read this email and posts linked for > the updates if you're interested! In short, this year both medium and > large sized projects can be proposed, with more flexibility on end dates. > > Everyone interested in suggesting projects or mentoring should review > the blog post here regarding the changes: > > > https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/11/expanding-google-summer-of-code-in-2022.html > > Now is the time to work on getting together a set of projects we'd like > to have GSoC students work on over the summer. Similar to last year, we > need to have a good set of projects for students to choose from in > advance of the deadline for mentoring organizations. > > HOWEVER, as noted in the blog post above, project length expectations > have changed. Please decide accordingly based on your requirements and > availability! Also, there is going to be only one intermediate > evaluation, similarly to last year. > > GSoC timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline > > One other thing to note is that anyone over the age of 18 will be > eligible in 2022 in addition to students, broadening the pool of > potential applicants and changing the terminology of applicants to > "contributors". > > The deadline for Mentoring organizations to apply is: February 21. The > list of accepted organization will be published around March 7. > > Unsurprisingly, we'll need to have an Ideas page again, so I've gone > ahead and created one (copying last year's): > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2022 > > Google discusses what makes a good "Ideas" list here: > > > https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list.html > > All the entries are marked with '2021' to indicate they were pulled from > last year. If the project from last year is still relevant, please > update it to be '2022' and make sure to update all of the information > (in particular, make sure to list yourself as a mentor and remove the > other mentors, as appropriate). Please also be sure to update the > project's scope to be appropriate for the new guidelines. > > New entries are certainly welcome and encouraged, just be sure to note > them as '2022' when you add them. Projects from last year which were > worked on but have significant follow-on work to be completed are > absolutely welcome as well - simply update the description appropriately > and mark it as being for '2022'. > > When we get closer to actually submitting our application, I'll clean > out the '2021' entries that didn't get any updates. Also - if there are > any projects that are no longer appropriate (maybe they were completed, > for example and no longer need work), please feel free to remove them. > The page is still work in progress, so it's entirely possible I missed > some updates where a GSoC project was completed independently of GSoC > (and if I removed any that shouldn't have been - feel free to add them > back by copying from the 2021 page). > > As a reminder, each idea on the page should be in the format that the > other entries are in and should include: > > - Project title/one-line description > - Brief, 2-5 sentence, description of the project > - Description of programming skills needed and estimation of the > difficulty level > - Project size > - List of potential mentors > - Expected Outcomes > > As with last year, please consider PostgreSQL to be an "Umbrella" > project and that anything which would be considered "PostgreSQL Family" > per the News/Announce policy [1] is likely to be acceptable as a > PostgreSQL GSoC project. > > In other words, if you're a contributor or developer on WAL-G, barman, > pgBackRest, the PostgreSQL website (pgweb), the PgEU/PgUS website code > (pgeu-system), pgAdmin4, pgbouncer, pldebugger, the PG RPMs (pgrpms), > the JDBC driver, the ODBC driver, or any of the many other PG Family > projects, please feel free to add a project for consideration! If we get > quite a few, we can organize the page further based on which project or > maybe what skills are needed or similar. > > Let's have another great year of GSoC with PostgreSQL! > > Thanks! > > Ilaria & Stephen > > [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/news-and-events/ I've added a project to improve the JDBC website Thanks, Dave