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New Video: How to be successful with Google Sumer of Code

02 Apr Posted by aross
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This video is from a Google Summer of Code information session held at the University of Toronto. The event was a panel discussion involving panelists from 6 open source communities including:

  • Austin Ziegler - Ruby
  • Diego Novillo - Google
  • Blake Winton - DrProject
  • Nelson Ko - TikiWiki
  • Behdad Esfahbod - GNOME Foundation
  • Andrew Ross - Ingres


The panel had excellent advice and wisdom to share with interns. Some of the key points include:

  • Communication is key to your successs. Be responsive to questions and interact with your mentors OFTEN.
  • Establish a relationship with project team members. This is typically done by communicating in IRC/Email or attending community events.
  • NEVER copy and past the project ideas as is from the web site. Make the idea your own by being specific, providing a timeline, and interacting ahead of time by asking questions to define a realistic scope
  • Pick an appropriate project you can realistically accomplish. This may involve engaging the community to help you scope it.
  • Remember - you're not qualified... that's the point. So use the opportunity to learn and get a great experience.

The deadline to apply is 19:00 UTC Friday April 3rd. Good luck!

Here is a video of the panel discussion:

Google Summer of Code panel discussion from Andrew Ross on Vimeo.

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Comments

Torrent search engine (not verified)Thu, 02/25/2010 - 08:13

Thank you for your useful

Thank you for your useful post and cognitive video! The information you provided was really good. I appreciate it and  I'm always searching for informative stuff like this, I will check here often for more coll suff.

Anonymous (not verified)Thu, 02/11/2010 - 08:35

Very Useful information ,

Very Useful information , this is both good reading for, have quite a few good key points, and I learn some new stuff from it too, thanks for sharing your information.

regards

Anonymous (not verified)Fri, 12/25/2009 - 09:31

Thank you  for your post and

Thank you  for your post and video!!  I agree with you that communication is key to your success and that we must be responsive to questions and interact with our mentors OFTEN.

AnonymousThu, 04/02/2009 - 15:35

Not fearing to ask questions

At around the 50 minute mark an article is mentioned about problems with not asking questions, do you have that handy?

arossThu, 04/02/2009 - 21:27

Let me look it up

Hi, thanks for the comment. I believe that was my comment you are referring to. I'll look it up when I get a moment.