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Welcome to the GeomScale Google Summer of Code 2023 wiki!

This wiki will be the central hub of information regarding the GeomScale participation in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023. Administrators are Vissarion Fisikopoulos ([email protected]), Apostolos Chalkis ([email protected]) and Elias Tsigaridas ([email protected]).

Everyone who wants to participate in Google Summer of Code with GeomScale should:

• read what GSoC is about and have a look at past GSoC programs; note that the program maintain the big changes of the last year,
• join our mailing list where discussions and announcements about projects will take place,
• join GeomScale community channel on gitter, which is mostly for real time communication.

Overview of the program

In short, each contributor selected for a GSoC project will get paid to work on a GeomScale related topic for ~175 hours (medium sized projects) or ~350 hours (large projects) during the summer:

• Mentors can add projects to give ideas to contributors. Please read the mentor guide, to learn more about what it means to be a mentor for an organization and creating appropriate project ideas (175 hour and 350 hour projects).
• Contributors should look at the list of projects to see if any project interests them. Before emailing project mentors, please do at least one project test and post a link to your solution on the proposal’s wiki page. Then email the project mentors to express your interest, and describe any prior experience.
• If a contributor can provide a link to a C++/R/python repository (depending on the project) with at least 1,000 lines, non-coursework open source code this will definitely strengthen their application. Code should have been open sourced at least three months ago, and show a log of commits improving the library over time.
• After opening communication with project mentors, each contributor must write an application with a detailed timeline, following this application template. Successful applications are shared with mentors for feedback before submission of a final application on Google.
• For real time communication contributors and mentors can use gitter.
• If GeomScale is accepted as a GSoC project, Google will award a certain number of contributor slots.
• The project administrators and mentors of GeomScale will rank projects in order of application quality and importance to the GeomScale project, and the top projects will be funded.
• Contributors get paid a stipend by Google for writing free/open-source code for a fixed period during the summer.
• Mentors get code written for their project, but no money.

Proposed Projects

See: table of proposed coding projects