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GNOME Welcomes Google Summer of Code 2020 Students

The GNOME Foundation is excited to announce that GNOME is participating in Google Summer of Code. We have participated every year since the program’s inception, and are proud to share with you our students for 2020!

Clarissa Borges – Evaluation of requirements, content, design and components for the refresh of gnome.org
Yetizone – UI improvements to Epiphany’s Preferences, History dialog and the Bookmarks popover
Apoorv Sachan – Port Nautilus Properties Dialog to Use GtkBuilder
S-Sai Vineet – Polish and optimise gitg files and diff plugins
Ujjwal Kumar – An adpative GTK widget
Kavan Mevada – Redesign Sound Recorder to make it adaptive.
José F Lorenzo-Hernández – Improvements to battery testing
Alejandro Domínguez – Support for multiple user accounts in Fractal
Mariana Pícolo – Redesign of the GNOME Shell Notification popover
Adwait Rawat Adding UI for importing and managing firmware in GNOME Games
Mahmoud Khalil – Detecting Differences Between Two Non-Consecutive Commits in Gitg
Neville Antony – Implement Collections in GNOME Games
Chinmay Gurjar – Add Support for Remote Sources in Music

Each project has an experienced community mentor working alongside the students.

To our new students, welcome! To our returning students, welcome back! We wish the students best with their respective projects.

You can follow the progress of each student by reading their blog posts on Planet GNOME.

A complete list of GNOME Summer of Code 2020 projects are available at the GNOME wiki.

The GNOME foundation is grateful for Google’s efforts and the mentors who make Google Summer of Code possible.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-projects-for-google-summer-of-code-2020/2979

Google Summer of Code 2019 concludes

After nine weeks, Google Summer of Code 2019 has concluded. During the summer, nine students have worked on a range of projects which will yield great benefits to upcoming versions of GNOME.

There no there is no doubt that this represents a substantial amount of effort and we hope that all of the students will stay as GNOME contributors.

The highlights of the completed projects include efforts to convert GStreamer plugins to Rust, implementing a saved states manager for GNOME Games, adding preview links in Polari (GNOME’s irc client), a rework of the Gtk website, implementing side by side diff view in Gitg and more.

As well as appreciating the student’s work, the GNOME Foundation is grateful to our mentors – all experienced community members who have contributed valuable time and energy helping guide the students to complete their respective projects.

The GNOME Foundation also wants to thank Google who provides the resources for Google Summer Of Code to run.

If you are not a GNOME contributor yet there is available information on how get involved – we love to have you on-board. A complete list of projects with links to respective to project is available on the GNOME wiki.

39 Interns Will Work to Improve GNOME this Summer

The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce that 39 participants have been accepted for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and the Outreach Program For Women (OPW) internships to work with the GNOME Project this summer.

The work will cover a wide range of tasks including improving Shell animations, annotation support in Evince, DLNA capabilities in Photos, and documentation updates. Information about all accepted participants and their projects is available in the e-mail welcoming the interns, which was sent to the Foundation mailing list.

It will be easy to follow the progress of the interns, as they are required to blog on Planet GNOME every two weeks.

These opportunities would not have been possible without the GNOME community members, many of whom themselves have participated in these programs before, guiding the participants and the financial sponsorship from Google, HP , Linux Foundation, and Red Hat.

The Foundation is looking forward to the results of the interns’ work, which will provide a better experience for users and developers.

Time to apply for OPW and GSoC

With the summer coming closer, the GNOME Foundation are excited to announce applications are open for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreach Program for Women.

Outreach Program for Women

Outreach Program for Women offers a $5500 stipend for a four months internship working with a Free/Open Source organization. The program accepts proposals not only for coding projects, but also for documentation, design, and marketing projects. Every organization has mentors to guide and work with accepted participants during the course of the internship and application process.

As part of the application process, applicants must contribute to the project they indents to work on during the internship.

“Participating in the GNOME community as an intern allowed me to gain an understanding of the technologies used for development and the structure of free/open source teams. These skills have helped to enrich my understanding of FOSS and computer science”
-Meg Ford former Outreach Program for Women intern

The GNOME community encourages anyone interested to visit the Outreach Program for Women website, and to check our wiki where project ideas are listed. The application deadline for this round of the program is March 19.

Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an internship program sponsored by Google. Just like the Outreach Program for Women, GSoC offers a $5500 scholarship for students to work on Free/Open Source projects along with a mentor from the community.

2014 marks the 10th year of the program, and the GNOME project has participated every year. The program presents a great opportunity for students to get involved with our community, and to use their developments skill to contribute to the project. Many project ideas are available, and as usual students are also welcome to discuss their own ideas with prospective mentors!

Applications for this year’s round of GSoC are open until March 21.

Join Us

We are looking forward to welcome this year’s interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women!

If you’re interest in applying to work with GNOME, get in touch with us! The sooner you start your application, the better your chances to be accepted for both programs.

GNOME publishes the GNOME Outreach Program Yearbook 2013

Over the last years, the GNOME Outreach Program made several improvements to its central projects, the Outreach Program for Women and Google Summer of Code. Some of these improvements are making sure each intern connects with a potential mentor ahead of time, contributes a patch to the relevant module as part of the application process, and has blog posts with progress updates incorporated on Planet GNOME. All of these requirements were made to help students and interns to connect to their projects early on.

This year, we continued the tradition of a yearbook with the GNOME Outreach Program Yearbook 2013. In this book, you will find all participants from the Outreach Program for Women January-April 2013, the Outreach Program for Women June-September 2013 and Summer of Code 2013 . Furthermore, all students and interns who will be at this years GUADEC are highlighted with a badge. Please take the time to get to know our newest contributors!

Download the GNOME Outreach Program Yearbook 2013

Congratulations to our summer interns!

This summer, the GNOME project has had the great pleasure of having a total of 39 interns working with us. This included 29 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) interns as well as 10 participants in the GNOME Outreach Program for Women (GOPW).

The internships officially ended yesterday, and we’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank everyone who participated in them. We have seen some fantastic work done over the summer, including awesome new features as well as documentation and artwork. It has been a joy to work alongside such enthusiastic and talented individuals. You can find out more about our interns from this summer, as well as from last winter’s GOPW internships, in the 2012 GNOME Outreach Program Yearbook.

We hope that all our interns have enjoyed participating in the GNOME project, and that they have learned from their experiences. They have all truly become members of the GNOME community, and we look forward to continuing to work with them in the future.

This summer has been one of the most successful ever for GNOME’s outreach efforts. The project continues to invest in our outreach programs, which are an important part of our mission to spread software freedom.

Once again: congratulations to all.

GNOME publishes the GNOME Outreach Program Yearbook 2012

In the last year, the GNOME Outreach Program made several improvements to its central projects, the Outreach Program for Women and Google Summer of Code. Some of these improvements are making sure each intern connects with a potential mentor ahead of time, contributes a patch to the relevant module as part of the application process, and has blog posts with progress updates incorporated on Planet GNOME. All of these requirements were made to help students and interns to connect to their projects early on.

These efforts are extended today with the publication of the GNOME Outreach Program Yearbook 2012. In this book, you will find all participants from the Outreach Program for Women 2011/2012, Outreach Program for Women 2012 and Google Summer of Code 2012. Furthermore, all students and interns who will be at this years GUADEC are highlighted with a badge. Please take the time to get to know our newest contributors!

Download the GNOME Outreach Program Yearbook 2012

GNOME Launches New Round of Outreach Program for Women Internships and Improves Other Outreach Initiatives

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce its latest round of the Outreach Program for Women Internships, for which it has been able to accept ten outstanding applicants. GNOME’s efforts are made possible by the strong sponsorship that the program has received from free software companies and organizations committed to increasing the involvement of women in technology. Google and Mozilla have each sponsored two participants, Collabora, the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat have each sponsored one participant, and the GNOME Foundation has sponsored the remaining three from its general funds. The Software Freedom Conservancy adds an eleventh intern to the Outreach Program for Women. In addition, among 29 participants, GNOME accepted five women for Google Summer of Code, who all got involved through the outreach program.

John Sullivan, the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation which joins this year as a new sponsor, commented, “The Free Software Foundation is proud to sponsor an internship in GNOME’s Outreach Program for Women. The free software movement is about freedom for everyone, but we have a long way to go to make that a reality. This program’s past achievements in expanding the community by welcoming and retaining newcomers have moved us closer to that goal, and we can’t wait to hear this summer’s success stories.”

This is also the Conservancy’s first participation in the program. It is sponsoring its own participant for the Twisted Project. Twisted maintainer and mentor Jessica McKellar said, “Programs like this encourage free and open source communities to reflect on how to be more welcoming and supportive of people of all backgrounds. The success of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women has been tremendously inspiring; I am pleased that Twisted is joining it in tackling stereotypes in open source head-on this summer while working with our new contributors on some exciting projects.”

Previous rounds of the program have been very successful, and have helped in other mentorship and outreach efforts of the project. When GNOME started the current Outreach Program for Women two years ago, it had an initial list of nine mentors from eight projects who were eager to help with the program. Connecting newcomers with mentors who can guide them in their initial contributions proved to be the most important aspect of the outreach effort. For that reason, GNOME recently moved the list of mentors that was built up for the Outreach Program for Women to be a part of the GNOME Love initiative. There are now 37 mentors from 22 projects who any newcomer can contact any time throughout the year in this ever-growing list. The GNOME team also started a page on the Google Summer of Code wiki that contains links to such lists of mentors in many free software organizations. That page currently has 15 organizations. In addition to being a general resource to point students looking for an organization to join to, the list is also used to spread the word about Google Summer of Code and mentorship opportunities among technical women groups at many universities.

The Outreach Program for Women demonstrated that an initial contribution to the project by an applicant increases their involvement with the project, prepares them for the work during the internship period, and serves as an important selection criteria. This year, GNOME also required the students applying for Google Summer of Code in GNOME to make a contribution to the project they are applying to work on, not just to supply a link to a bug they fixed in any free software project. As a result, all successful applicants demonstrated their ability to work on the project they proposed and discussed their proposal with their potential mentor.

The GNOME community is very proud of the accomplishments of the last round’s Outreach Program for Women participants, which include the following:

Kasia Bondarava committed Belarusian translations for 35 GNOME modules. With her help, Belarusian translation coverage went from 67% to 88%, making Belarusian a new officially supported language. She also made a comprehensive comparison of different translator tools and advocated for better translator comments.
Christy Eller has tremendously improved the web development process in GNOME and created the new Friends of GNOME pages.
Susanna Huhtanen created comprehensive developer documentation about writing GNOME applications in JavaScript.
Patricia Santana Cruz added support for sharing videos and images with different online services, improved hotplug connection of camera devices, and added recorded time when making a video in the Cheese webcam application.
Sophia Yu ported Swell Foop game from JavaScript to Vala, completely reworking its implementation, and updated several other games to use new GNOME APIs.

The detailed accomplishments of all 11 program participants can be found at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2011/Accomplishments

Over three quarters of the women involved in the program have stayed connected to the GNOME community. Better still, Outreach Program for Women participants have a strong tradition of becoming mentors in GNOME. Luciana Fujii Pontello and Ekaterina Gerasimova mentored Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women participants in previous rounds. Tiffany Antopolski, Anita Reitere and Srishti Sethi mentored Google Code-In participants. This round, Christy Eller will co-mentor a Web Development intern and Tiffany Antopolski will mentor four Documentation interns, three of whom will be working on Developer Documentation along with Tiffany. Many former participants have also presented at free software conferences and local events to raise awareness about GNOME and their work. Many have helped with the outreach program by spreading the word about it, improving the materials available about the program, and guiding new applicants.

The Outreach Program for Women is organized by Marina Zhurakhinskaya, with help and support from Karen Sandler, Rosanna Yuen and the GNOME Board of Directors. The essential work is done by the program’s mentors in helping the applicants and eventual participants contribute to their projects. For more information about the Outreach Program for Women, visit http://projects.gnome.org/outreach/women

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Students accepted for Google Summer of Code in GNOME

The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce that 29 students have been accepted to work on GNOME through Google Summer of Code this year. The students will work on a wide range of projects improving the core GNOME 3 experience, GNOME technologies, and popular applications. Some applications that the students will work on are Documents, Web, Boxes, Calculator, Banshee, Getting Things GNOME!, Activity Journal, and GCompris.

Organizing the Outreach Program for Women helped GNOME improve the resources available for all newcomers and guidelines for the Google Summer of Code applicants. With the GNOME mentors list now available as part of the GNOME Love initiative and with each project idea on the GNOME Google Summer of Code ideas page including a potential mentor, we were able to ensure that the students connect with a potential mentor for the idea they were proposing. We also required the students to make a contribution to the project they are applying to work on. As a result, all successful applicants demonstrated their ability to work on the project they proposed and discussed their proposal with their potential mentor. The GNOME community is thrilled to have these talented and dedicated contributors have a chance to spend the whole summer working on GNOME!

The GNOME Foundation is deeply grateful to Google for its generous support of free software projects and for being included in the program for the eights year in a row! Also, a special thank you to the mentors who help guide the students!

For more information about the accepted projects please visit the GNOME project page on the Google Summer of Code website. The students will blog about their work on Planet GNOME throughout the summer.