Why are we doing this?

The "Problem statement"

The Google Summer of Code (GSOC program) is a long standing effort, sponsored by Google, to onboard new developers to a variety of open source projects.   Historically, the ASF (Apache Software Foundation) has had a very active set of projects across dozens of different PMCs.  

At Fineract, we've seen some outside efforts to involve and onboard new devs to this community.  The potential challenge is that this onboards them primarily to an outside collaboration or vendor.  

How do we judge success?

The goals are that new devs have a positive experience and learn something about how to contribute to an open source project.  They become capable of contributing to the project in some way.  They, hopefully, continue to engage in the project.  

We do not assume that the ability to commit a PR is a requirement for this program. 

What do we already know?

What do we need to answer?

What are we doing?

Why will a customer want this?

Visualize the solution

Scale and scope