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High Level Concept | |
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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. We can build on this and do a better job of onboarding them here. (The potential challenge is that the existing efforts onboard them primarily to an outside collaboration or vendor.) The GSOC program is aimed specifically at students, enrolled in a program. |
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 have their PR accepted is a requirement for this program. In some scenarios, it may be that the work is done as a Proof of Concept (POC). |
Process | |
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GSOC Schedule (approximate) | December of previous year - advertise for Mentors / start the ball rolling - choose a coordinator https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline (GSOC timelines) January second week - Generate and finalize a list of ideas for development January third week - align the ideas and inform the GSOC coordinators at the ASF Feb first week - The ASF finalizes application to GSOC March second week - Applications open for contributors April - Applicants evaluated and selected by the project / approved by GSOC May third or fourth week Start of projects June/July/Aug - mentoring Late August- projects completed and shared see ==> https://groups.google.com/g/google-summer-of-code-announce?pli=1 |
Linking to the broader ASF GSOC efforts | See https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html NOTE: Mentors working with the Fineract GSOC coordinator create JIRA tickets in the Apache Fineract project with tags GSOC and GSOC2026 . |
Onboarding Mentors | https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html e.g. mentors must subscribe to the email list <mentors-subscribe@community.apache.org> see full list of information on that page |
Move to sub-pages after 2026.
GSOC 2026 Ideas here | |
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Project Idea 1 | high level story level of effort |
Project Idea 2 | high level story level of effort |
Project Idea 3 | high level story level of effort |
Project Idea ... | high level story level of effort |