Plots2: 🎉 Announcing 10 Summer of Code projects for 2018

Thanks a lot all the mentors. It is a lovely to work with you all. :grin:

Thank you all

And also congrats to all students

Thanks a ton😃

Congrats everyone

Congratulations to everyone and thank you to all the amazing mentors 😃 🎈 !

Congrats everyone :smile:

Congratulations everyone and thanks to all the mentors for your support :raised_hands: :sparkles: :tada: :smile: .

Congratulations everyone!! Thanks to all the mentors for their motivation and support.🎉🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations everyone! And thanks to all the mentors. Let's start an amazing journey of coding this summer.

Like those animations that was quite cool. Thanks!!

Hahaha! yes.

And hello, can @publiclab/mentors in particular but really any @publiclab/reviewers introduce themselves briefly? @publiclab/reviewers feel free to mention where you are in the world (if you like) and what projects at Public Lab you've been working on?

Can mentors please also leave a comment on https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/04-23-2018/announcing-9-google-summer-of-code-projects-for-2018 so we can mention you on the Public Lab site as well? At least say I'm a mentor! so we know. Thank you!

I'll start -- I'm in Providence, Rhode Island, in the US. I do a little bit of everything but my passion in software is long-term contributor community health and helping contributors take leadership in the community. Also, I really like tidy, readable JavaScript 😀

I’m from Ghana but based in Poland. I’m an engineer at CloudSight Inc
working on AI and ML projects with Python and Ruby. Looking forward to the
official start of coding.

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Kind regards,
Emmanuel M. Hayford.

I'm from India. Currently I am pursuing my B.Tech from National institute of technology Hamirpur. And I am a mentor of 4 different GSOC projects(Image sequencer, Email Integration Project and two more) of Public Lab. I like coding but I am also good in Management.

Hi!
Wow - such a great group 😁🎉!! I'm a mentor on a number of projects this
year, and so excited to see what everyone does. I'm based out of New
Orleans 🐊, Louisiana and work on the community development side of Public
Lab. I won't be able to help with coding questions you might have (luckily
we have some amazing reviewers who are spectacular with that!), but I'm
here to support in other ways. I spend a lot of time on Public Lab and work
with people who collaborate there. I'm happy to test things out, bounce
around ideas, and help provide some context for why we want these projects
on Public Lab!

Looking forward to it!
-Stevie

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I'm from India. Currently I am pursuing my B.Tech from National institute
of technology Hamirpur. And I am a mentor of 4 different GSOC
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Lab. I like coding but I am also good in Management.

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Hi everyone ☀️,
Congrats to all whose proposals were accepted, and even if yours wasn't, please know that you are appreciated and that your contributions are valued!
Thank you to everyone who has been interacting already, it's like the first day of school around here :)
I'm similar to @steviepubliclab in that I spend a lot of time on publiclab.org and work with people who come to collaborate on environmental concerns. I also work on evaluation stuff such as surveys, feedback loops, and (ideally) organizational learning! I love maps. I live in Brooklyn. I am trying (unsuccessfully) to learn Mandarin. I would like to help people in Summer of Code projects meet each other in person (apparently we have a large Delhi cohort???) Let's have a great summer all!

Hi everyone! Just wanted to drop by and say Hello. Congrats to all GSoC students who got selected this year. Happy to see so many of you this year! The community is growing large :smiley: I am Ananyo, a past GSoC student and mentor at publiclab. I have been a part of the @publiclab/reviewers and @publiclab/soc teams. It has been a great time working with publiclab and I hope you guys are having a good time as well as I see the publiclab chatroom is filled with conversation these days :blush: Though I haven't been getting time to get involved these days due to my work I would surely like to pitch in for discussions and Code Reviews. Presently I am located at Hyderabad, India. Would love to meet if anyone is near my location! Wish everyone a great summer ahead !

@jywarren @steviepubliclab @ebarry Hello to all of you as well! :smile: How have you all been doing?

Big update: we've also just heard that Rails Girls Summer of Code was announced and we will be working with one team of two from that program as well -- welcome @stefannibrasil @milaaraujo!!!! 🎉 😀 🙌

We're SO HAPPY to be working with you all -- THANK YOU!!!

Also there's a great video 🎥 of the RGSoC teams finding out about their projects being accepted -- awesome 😄

Congratulations @stefannibrasil @milaaraujo :tada: !!! That's actually nice way to announce result by RGSoC team :smile:

congratulations @stefannibrasil @milaaraujo . Really liked the way they announced the results.

Congratulations @stefannibrasil @milaaraujo. I will really like to work with you all this summer.
@jywarren How about making a soc team as you did last yr for all 11 (9 gsoc + 2 rgsoc) candidates??

@SidharthBansal great, absolutely. I'll invite everyone to the team shortly. Thanks!

Congratulations @steffanibrasil @milaarujo 🎉

Thank you, guys!!!! =)))

Thank you and Congrats to everyone!! I am looking forward to working with you and I am really happy to be joining you this summer =)

PS. It was a lovely surprise, right?!

Hi, from MaggPi (https://publiclab.org/notes/author/MaggPi)
My github link is: https://github.com/MargaretAN9
Trying to sync with gitter but not sure how to join the group..
Thx

@MargaretAN9 You can join the group by searching for the group 'publiclab' in gitter and then joining the group.

Hi everyone,

Congratulations to the chosen projects! May this opportunity serve the
world!

With regards to the chatroom, just a clarification: The chat is a
Matrix.Org room with handle "#publiclab:matrix.org" which is
replicated to Gitter and IRC-OFTC.

I use https://Riot.im/ , and we have a dedicated IRC gateway at
https://chat.publiclab.org/

Welcome to the community,

Sebastian

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@MargaretAN9 https://github.com/MargaretAN9 You can join the group
by searching for the group 'publiclab' in gitter and then joining the
group.

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OK, I've sent invites to everyone for the @publiclab/soc group -- and a note to folks who are in there from past years: you're VERY WELCOME to stay in the group! But if you do want to excuse yourself we don't mind 😃 still, we love having alums around!

Hello everyone , I want to tell you people that due to exams I will be unavailable for few days. And one more thing due to some family issues I was not able to give efficient time for public lab and didn't made any necessary contribution but I assure you people that after exam I will be fully available and do my work efficiently.
Sorry for inconvenience

Good luck with your exams!!!

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Hello everyone , I want to tell you people that due to exams I will be
unavailable for few days. And one more thing due to some family issues I
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fully available and do my work efficiently.
Sorry for inconvenience

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Hi, I'm Amir (AmirberAgain), from Israel. I have a M.Sc. physics work as an Algorithms engineer in a medical startup. Looking forward to work with MaggPi on R-pi microscopes!

This note is for my mentors (AmirberAgain/abTest-123, https://github.com/abTest-123; icarito, https://github.com/icarito ; jywarren,https://github.com/jywarren ) concerning GSOC proposal :https://publiclab.org/notes/MaggPi/03-20-2018/gsoc-proposal-computer-vision-enhancements-for-raspberry-pi-based-public-lab-science-projects

1.Thank you for agreeing to be my mentors!

1. Please verify that you are the correct project mentors? I got the list from the GSOC web page https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5955146341679104, and I just wanted to confirm it hasn’t changed.

1. I assume this is the best way to communicate? I understand the goal is to be ‘open’ but I am not sure if project coordination topics are appropriate in this forum or should be worked somewhere else.

2. Note that I have updated the Public Lab website with the proposal that was actually submitted to GSOC, https://publiclab.org/notes/MaggPi/03-20-2018/gsoc-proposal-computer-vision-enhancements-for-raspberry-pi-based-public-lab-science-projects . The updated version has slightly more info and has all sections completed. Can you please review the proposal? Is there anything you want added or removed?

3. One change seems to be the desire to collect images by microscope. I have the equipment for this but need advice on what should be test images? I assume a calibration slide is appropriate https://publiclab.org/wiki/basic-microscope but it’s also not a very fun reference and has no color. It may be a good time to try to measure something readily available (like a dollar bill) so that anyone could have a reference without paying $10 for a calibration slide.

4. One concern is what is the best spectrometer for phase 3. After reviewing the different Public Lab kits, the lego spectrometer seems the best choice. Lego was selected since it was compatible with the Raspberry Pi camera and I could possibly share results with cedarlodge(from Public Lab), https://publiclab.org/notes/cedarlodge/03-07-2018/raspberry-pi-spectrometer-gui#comments, So is this OK?

5. What is the policy for getting access to public lab kits and parts? Do I need to purchase or can Public lab provide? I would like to use 2 lego kits (one for visible and one for vis-IR ). Note I plan to use my own v2 cameras and Raspberry Pi. (Please tell me if there is there some reason why the lego kit spectrometer comes with v1 instead of higher resolution v2?)

6. I am pretty new to github and gitter but hopefully will figure it out all out soon.

7. Thank you for your time.

1. I'm happy to have been asked! you posted some great stuff.
2. My username (Gmail address) is correct.
3. Those are great points, I personally would prefer to have a single place (public or otherwise) rather than spreading over GitHub/Public Lab[personal and project pages]/Glitter/Email/Slack/Trello. Do you have a preference?
4. I'll be glad to discuss your goals for this project, let's try to map out a more detailed plan (what would you like to do in each stage and how, who do you think will be (re)using it? what do you expect to be easy/hard quick/lengthy process?
5. Do you have an idea on what could be used for such a test? note the field of view in the tutorial is just 0.25mm which means you would need to find an object which is <0.2mm, easy to find an position and transparent enough to image threw. it would be interesting to select several different objects which are commonly available and properly spec'ed for something of this type, I'd say the real reason to do that is not the price as much as the availability (getting things from Amazon to Israel can take weeks, I'm guessing this is relevant for many other locations).
6. Let's integrate this in to item 4.
7. I'll leave something for Jeff. I noticed you need a diffraction grating, I would send some by mail.
8. Yeah, I know what it's like.
9. Sure, I guess we trust you to make it count!

Hi Everyone, @publiclab/soc, and @publiclab/reviewers

Happy Community Bonding Period!

Over at https://publiclab.org/notes/liz/05-07-2018/all-summer-of-code-convening-live-call, i just posted details for an "all-hands" video call tomorrow, Tuesday May 8, on https://meet.jit.si/publiclab.

The times will be:
8:30am New Orleans and Peru
9:30am NYC
3:30pm Israel
7:00pm Delhi
9:30pm mainland China

Did i get everyone? Please write in if I missed your timezone!!!! Also see:
http://everytimezone.com/#2018-5-8,1530,b8jj

Visit https://publiclab.org/notes/liz/05-07-2018/all-summer-of-code-convening-live-call for more details about this casual call.

Thanks!

Awesome! Let's do this. No zoom this time, BTW? I'll look around jitsi a bit.

Hi! Rails Girls Summer of Code is also invited? :)

The time booked is 6:30 am PDT - Vancouver, Canada timezone :/

ohhhhhhhhh @stefanni - I didn't know where you were based! Yikes! How about
if we move everything ahead 2 hours----is 9pm too late in Delhi?

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Hi! Rails Girls Summer of Code is also invited? :)

The time booked is 6:30 am PDT - Vancouver, Canada timezone :/

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Not really, 👍 from my side.

Liz, timezone for Poland?

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Not really, 👍 from my side.

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@siaw23 I think https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Publiclab+SoC+commencement+live+call&iso=20180508T1530&p1=1440 ought to work for everyone.

@ebarry due to family problems I am going to home tomorrow and I am fully unavailable for 2 days. But during travel I may be able(not surely) to join you people for some time.
Sorry for that.

Hi all,

Sorry but I might not be able to join this call, the original time for me
is a maybe, I'm rather sure that I will not be able to join the later time
slot.
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@ebarry https://github.com/ebarry due to family problems I am going to
home tomorrow and I am fully unavailable for 2 days. But during travel I
may be able(not surely) to join you people for some time.
Sorry for that.

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Great thanks @ryzokuken ! How about other folks who would end up with a mid-late evening meeting time?

@ebarry I am fine with 9pm 😄

9 pm sounds great :smile_cat: !

Hi @siaw23 ! I believe Poland time is the same as Israel time, i updated the timezone listings in the Event invitation to have these dual listings, and I believe the local time where you are will be 3:30pm OR if we move back 2 hours as we are discussing will be 5:30pm.

Ok so sad to hear that @MayankKashyap won't be joining us tomorrow and that @abTest-123 is a maybe (but there will be future calls!) I'm waiting to hear back from @stefannibrasil and @milaaraujo about whether pushing the call 2 hours forward to 8:30AM their time would work? Thank you! 🌮

Yes, thanks, @ebarry for the reschedule! It works for us :) See you tomorrow then!

@ebarry 9:00 pm would be great for me. But is it confirmed that video call will take place at 9:00 pm coz I don't see any update in time in the public lab website.

Hi and thanks all -- that was a quick rescheduling :). I've updated the note here:
Tomorrow, May 8, 2018 at 8:30am Vancouver, 10:30am New Orleans and Peru, 11:30am NYC and Providence, 5:30pm Israel and Poland, 9:00pm Delhi, 11:30pm mainland China, we will be convening on https://meet.jit.si/publiclab

For some other timezones, see http://everytimezone.com/#2018-5-8,1650,b8jj

Hi folks! We will begin in 13 minutes :)

I might have gotten the timezones wrong for Israel - sorry @abTest-123 !!! This means i also might have gotten the times wrong for Poland - hope i didn't mess you up @siaw23 !

See everyone soon :)

I might be a few minutes late, but will try to jump in ASAP

Hi, all - just checking in with the 4 points I made during the call (some will be repetitive, sorry!):

1. Create planning issues -- with a checklist! -- from your proposals -- read more here to help coordinate your work with others
2. Try creating a first-timers-only issue from one of your checklist items -- learn more here -- to bring other people into your project, and slowly build a team over the course of the summer
3. Use CodeClimate to find suggestions on how to make your code more readable and maintainable
4. Talk to each other! Don't get stuck - ask for help; we're all here to help each other out. Use the chatroom, post an issue, and also remember to offer help (like reviewing PRs, troubleshooting) to each other and to newcomers.

It was great seeing you all -- thanks and get ready for a great summer!

@publiclab/soc see above! Thank you!!!

Also @MargaretAN9 I'm going to respond to your excellent questions on your proposal page -- at least for now! Thanks!

Hi, everyone!!! Just wanted to say to the GSoC folks -- welcome to your first day!!! How are things going? Where are people starting out?

@publiclab/soc

Hi jeff !
Was busy with exams earlier , will resume back today . Very excited :)

hi @jywarren, everything fine here :smiley:. Working on completion of the draft feature.

Hi @jywarren, I am fine. Working on user_tag and user_session for fb login.

Hi @jywarren, I am working on upgradation of gems currently. Hope it completes in time. Thanks!!

Hi @jywarren, working on digest emails.

Hi @jywarren I'm starting off on the blend module!!😀

Hi all! Great and I'm doing my best to reply to each of your requests for
reviews. Please also help to review one another's work and we'll have a
more regular check-in cycle next week as everyone's exams will hopefully be
completed (good luck!) and I'll be back from this big set of workshops!

If you're waiting for a review, or if you're stuck, please request help
here OR leave a comment with @publiclab/soc and @publiclab/reviewers for
some input and I'll be able to check your work faster then. Thanks everyone!

Very exciting stuff going on everywhere! Keep up the great work!

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Hi @jywarren https://github.com/jywarren I'm starting off on the blend
module!!😀

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Moving over to a weekly update cycle using the outreach tag -- thanks everyone!!!!

Next up: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2739