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Summer of Code & Highly Open Participation Contest: How successful is GNOME? Daniel G. Siegel & Andre . Klapper What's that? What's GSoC? Stipend for coding task over the summer Since 2005 Up to 174 organizations

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Summer of Code & Highly Open Participation Contest: How successful is GNOME?

Daniel G. Siegel & Andre Č. Klapper

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What's that?

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What's GSoC?

Stipend for coding task over the summer
Since 2005
Up to 174 organizations
Encouraging students to get involved with open

source projects

Student gets USD4500 for his successful

project

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What's GHOP?

Small tasks for students, each task <5 days
Nov 27, 2007 – Feb 2008
10 organizations (GNOME, Drupal, Mono, ...)
Encouraging high school students to get

involved with open source projects via small contributions

Student gets USD100 for every three tasks

successfully completed + t-shirt

Grand prize winners (and parents) get a trip to

Google HQ in Mountain View

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Motivation

Money
Interest in FLOSS
Google

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Obstacles for participants

Unknown workflows & rules inside the projects
Technical learning process and technical issues
Producing and applying a patch
Parents

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GHOP Task categories

Translation ("Improve drowning $LANG

translation")

QA
Code (Test 5 Patches in Bugzilla, Create test

database for Glom)

Docu (Write pangocairo tutorial; Update

screenshots)

Outreach (GNOME Photo Album, Obsolete

project webpages)

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GHOP Task Example

Title
Benefits
Requirements (e.g. C, Python,

DBus, SVN)

Resources
Primary contact

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Successful?

Depends. Let's see...

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GSoC

Avg. 20-30 students
Avg. 1 student drops out

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Problem: Integration

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Integration Ratio

2008 2007 2006

5 10 15 20 25 30

IN IN IN OUT OUT OUT

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Problems

After the Summer?
Money
School
People joining project
Accepting the patches
Stability of software

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GHOP

At the beginning: 44 tasks
Total: 113 tasks (includes Deleted ones)

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Compared to other projects

Project:

Tasks

GNOME:

113

Apache:

55

Drupal:

177

Joomla!:

180

MoinMoin:

115

Mono:

84 (30 never claimed)

Moodle:

118

Plone:

53 (22 never claimed)

Python:

340 (but >100 deleted before start)

SilverStripe:208

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Involved Gnomers as mentors

103 Tasks with owners, 25 different owners, 15
wners filed at least 2 tickets
mjc (gthumb)
owen (online desktop)
sebp (deskbar-applet)
murray (glom)
jhs (anjuta)
_ke (cheese)

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Review times for patches

FLOSS: Can take months / bitrot
GHOP Students blocked as only one

assignment possible per time

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Results

Total tasks

113

Completed tasks

85

Claimed

7

Open

1

Unclaimed

6

Deleted

14 (e.g. Distro specific; lacked clear deliverables)

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Drop/Change Ratio

Out of 113 GHOP tasks, 20 tasks got the

assignee changed at least once

Realistic skills & time estimation of applicants?

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Integration Ratio

Most GHOP stuff got in (small and reviewale

contributions)

Stuff gets in if Task Owner = Reviewer
Problems: No reviewer (e.g. obsolete project

webpages, translation team maintainer AWOL)

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GHOP Winners

Winner: Patrick Hulin
Runners up:

David Turner, Natan Yellin, Philipp Kerling

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Thanks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72825507@N00/3539161615 http://www.flickr.com/photos/22094769@N04/3641356554 http://www.flickr.com/photos/28473961@N02/2842830409 http://www.flickr.com/photos/33229914@N00/1451223893 http://www.flickr.com/photos/12449418@N07/2127670840 http://www.flickr.com/photos/46425925@N00/403380696 http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/2281262906 http://www.flickr.com/photos/46425925@N00/1245731744 http://www.flickr.com/photos/36317426@N00/3166122213 http://www.flickr.com/photos/32239176@N00/2647827616

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