GSoC Office Hours - August 22,2024

Contributing GSoC
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Hi,
GSoC office hours will begin in 30 minutes.
Jenkins GSoC 2024 Office Hours Meeting Agenda and Notes - Google Docs .

Meeting recording and meeting notes will be shared in this thread below.

Thanks,
alyssa

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Recording & meeting notes to today’s meeting:

Attendees: AT, Danyang, Kris, Sridhar, Valentin, Bruno, Nour, Phillipp

Agenda:

  • This is our last office hour for this year’s program.

  • Final presentation via online meetup: Aug 29 @ 1PM UTC. Login in via zoom, you should have the calendar invite. 10 minutes per contributor.

  • Your reflection, lessons learned, advice for future GSoC contributors

    • Phillipp
      • List your reflection, lessons learned, advice here:

        • Don’t be afraid to ask questions

        • Don’t be afraid of setbacks

        • If I were to make a comparison with my company, the Weekly is relatively the same as a Daily in my company

        • Extension deadline (Phillipp):

          • Final Submission start: Sept 16 @ 6PM UTC
          • Final Submission deadline: Sept Sept 23 @ 6PM UTC

        • Extension deadline (Alex):

          • Final Evaluation start: Sept 23 @ 6PM UTC
          • Final Evaluation deadline: Sept 30 @ 6PM UTC
      • Nour
      • Mentors are so supportive, eager to provide help, and careful to point out to incomplete or incorrect things we have to be able to obtain a complete solution
      • Jenkins was very flexible in timing and way of communication
      • No pressure (and that’s the greatest) if I was not able to make it to an instance or any of the office hours
      • The only advice is keeping mentors and community updated with what you are doing, you plans, or your exams as people are able to work with you according to your availability most often and that was awesome. All that enabled me to produce and make a progress throughout my project.
    • Shlomo
    • Away on holiday this Thursday
    • Wrapping up project with documentation
    • Danyang
    • Reflection: This was my first time interacting with other programmers outside of a classroom setting. I wish I had taken this step earlier. Previously, I was always learning and coding alone, which made it difficult to identify what I was missing.
    • lessons learned: Engaging with real-world projects is like a trap—you have to jump in to get something out of it. You must take some action, even if it’s incorrect, so others can identify where the problems lie. It’s impossible to create a “perfect product” right from the start.
    • Participating in Google Summer of Code with Jenkins is great.
    • Sridhar
    • List your reflection, lessons learned, advice here:
      • Initial Feeling and drive
        • Quite excited and a bit nervous
        • Confidence grew as the project improves
      • Lessons learned
        • Time management
        • Managing mood swings and multitasking
        • And of course programming skills :wink:
      • Advice
        • Working through hard times
        • Have fun
    • Deadline for GSoC contributors
    • Final Submission deadline: Aug 26 @ 6PM UTC

  • Deadline for Mentors:

    • Final Evaluation start: Aug 26 @ 6PM UTC
    • Final Evaluation deadline: Sept 2 @ 6PM UTC

  • Don’t forget to post your final blogs on jenkins.io!