GSoC Posts

What is GSoC? Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an online, international program designed to encourage university student participation in open source software development. Students work for an open source software organization, and earn a stipend for successfully completing the project. If you want to know more about GSoC, click  here . How it all started? I joined a student club called  FOSS@AMRITA  in Amrita University , where a group of students work on various open source projects helping each other. I got to know about GSoC from the club itself, most of the previous year GSoC students from our college were members of the club. I was motivated by seeing them and started learning coding, staying in the lab after my college hours. Why I was attracted to GSoC is for real world experience, to prove myself that I can do something and for swag, stipend too. Why coala? Choosing an organization from previous year GSoC orgs was a hard one. Initi...

My journey in coala: I joined coala organisation in January 2017, expecting to apply for GSoC 2017. Due to age restrictions I couldn't apply in 2017. But, I stayed and learned a lot from coala and it's community. I would say coala is really good for newcomers, it provides great documentation and help from community. Initially, I worked on coala core repositories, but I was interested in developing coala bot(corobo predecessor), a chat bot which helps members of coala to ease their workflow. So, I started fixing some bugs and started adding new features to it. These things led to my promotion to developer and I was Google Code In 2017 mentor. Selecting project and Writing Proposal: Recently, after GCI 2017, corobo was shutdown due to misuse of bot by some mischievous forces. And it increased a lot manual work and everyone was missing corobo badly. So, I started working on a GSoC proposal to fix corobo security and add some enhancements to it. After finishing up my draft ...