Re: Google Summer of Code 2017: Call for students for Pharo Consortium

> *** Please forward this message to students that might be interested ***
>
> Heartiest Congratulations !
> Pharo Consortium has been selected as a mentor organisation for Google
> Summer of Code 2017.
>
> Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing
> students to open source software development.
> Students work on a 3 month programming project with an open source
> organisation during their break from university.
> Read more at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
>
> Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful
> environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback (think IDE
> and OS rolled into one).
>
> Everything in Pharo is an object. The entire syntax of Pharo fits on a
> postcard coding can be done directly in the debugger. Pharo has super
> cool tools that empower you and make you super efficient. Pharo's goal
> is to deliver a clean, innovative, free and open-source immersive
> environment. By providing a stable and small core system, excellent
> developing tools, and maintained releases, Pharo is an attractive
> platform to build and deploy mission critical applications. Pharo
> fosters a healthy ecosystem of both private and commercial
> contributors who advance and maintain the core system and its external
> packages.
>
> More information about Pharo is available here: http://www.pharo.org/
>
> We invite all the prospective eligible students to code their summer
> away with Pharo Consortium.
>
> Student Responsibilities
> ...to your Mentor
> - Submit quality work
> - Regularly communicate work completed, what you intend to do next, and blockers
> - Ask for help when something is preventing you from achieving a goal
> - Give indication that you are alive and working daily (GSoC)
> - Re-evaluate work scope when significantly ahead of expectations (GSoC)
> - Communicate with your mentor AND the broader community
> - Inform when work capacity will be reduced, as early as possible
> (e.g., family, health, other work) (GSoC)
> - Listen and respond to feedback
>
> ...to the Org Admin
>
> Let them know when there are
>
> - Interaction issues with any mentor or community member
> - Significant disagreements involving your work or changes to your work plan
>
> Read more about responsibilities here:
> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/responsibilities
>
> Hence, we invite enthusiastic student developers contributors to work
> with Pharo Consortium for GSoC 2017.
>
> 1. A first list of projects are available here :
> http://gsoc.pharo.org/ but more can be found by interacting with
> mentors from the Pharo community.
>
> 2. Join dedicated channels, #gsoc-students for general interactions
> with students on Pharo slack. In order to get an invitation for
> pharoproject.slack.com visit the URL here:
> http://slackinvites.pharo.org/
> Discuss with mentors about the complexity and skills required for the
> different projects.
>
> 3. Please help fix bugs, open relevant issues, suggest changes,
> additional features, help build a roadmap, and interact with mentors
> on mailing list and/or slack to get a better insight into projects.
> Better the contributions, Better are the chances of selection.
>
> Before applying:
> * Knowledge about OOP
> * Basic idea about Pharo & Smalltalk syntax and ongoing projects
> * Past experience with Pharo & Smalltalk
> * Interaction with organisation
> You can start with the Pharo MOOC : http://files.pharo.org/mooc/
>
> Guidelines for Proposal:
> * Introduction: Clearly defined problem. Current state of things.
> Issues you wish to solve and why. Conclude with solution.
> * Project goals: Format it like a list. Propose a clear list of
> deliverables, explaining exactly what you promise to do and what you
> do not plan to do. “Future developments” can be mentioned. It is
> better to promise less and deliver more than to promise a lot and then
> fall short.
> * Implementation: Longer and more detailed. Provide technical details,
> show that you understand the technology and illustrate key technical
> elements of your proposed solution.
> * Timeline: Make it weekly. Set goals for each week. Be upfront about
> other commitments, including exams, classes, travel, internships,
> jobs, etc.
> * Benefits to Community: Make your case a benefit to the organization.
> * Related Work: Research and write how the project fits into the
> target organization. Explain related works, similarities &
> differences.
> * About me: Provide full contact information, email addresses,
> websites, IRC nick, postal address and telephone. Write a few
> sentences about yourself, previous experiences and why you think
> you’re the best for this job.
>
> Submit your proposal early. Keep it short. Include necessary
> information. Get it reviewed in the mailing list or Slack channel
> before submitting it.
>
> The deadline for submitting your proposal is March 20th to April 3rd
> on https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
>
> Looking forward to great talent joining our organisation this summer.
>
> Warm Regards
> Pharo Organisation Admins
> (Alexandre Bergel, Jigyasa Grover, Serge Stinckwich & Yuriy Tymchuk)