GSOC/GSOC Application

Google Summer of Code Application

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SPDX is an all volunteer community committed to improving the awareness, standards and tools for open source compliance. By engaging students, we will increase the awareness of open source compliance for future software professionals. We would also like to engage students in a collaborative open source project and potentially keep them engaged after the project completes. It would be valuable to extend the compliance tools available for the open source community and for commercial software companies.

How will you keep mentors engaged with students

Three of our mentors have had experience with GSoC and have been very engaged in the past projects. We plan on having regular communications with the mentors in our mailing lists as well as in our weekly calls. Each of our mentors will have a back-up mentor to help support the mentoring activities and provide continuing engagement if the mentor is unavailable for any reason.

How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects?

The mentors will be primarily responsible for the student progress, with the back-up mentor providing support. We will be tracking progress in our weekly tech calls and discuss any issues when needed.

How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC?

We will involve the students in our standard communications (email distribution lists and weekly calls), provide a forum for them to communicate their project and results. Once significant milestones have been achieved, we will feature their results on the spdx.org website.

How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC?

We will encourage them to continue to contribute and maintain ongoing dialog through 1:1 emails from the mentors, inclusion in the SPDX mailing lists, and encouraging them to participate in the tech subgroup calls.