Plots2: Call for Summer of Code 2020 mentors!

Hey! Would love to be a mentor! I think i fulfill all the criterias, and I
have a couple of ideas for Google Summer of Code for simple-data-grapher,
maybe we could take that into account? Thanks a lot, can't wait for Summer
of Code this year!
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With Outreachy https://outreachy.org and Google Summer of Code
http://summerofcode.withgoogle.com 2020 coming up, we're looking ahead
to who may be interested in mentoring for these programs. We have
participated in both during the past few years
https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/08-21-2018/congratulations-on-a-great-2018-summer-of-code,
and while we are not guaranteed spots, we are planning to apply as an
organization.

Read some previous year's proposals here
https://publiclab.org/tag/call-for-proposals, and participate in
project idea brainstorming here. If one of the project ideas strikes your
interest, please mention it!

We especially welcome people from groups underrepresented in free and
open source software!

It's very important to us to have diverse representation in our mentor
group just as in our participant group. And remember -- our community
aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of
Conduct https://publiclab.org/conduct.
To participate:

This year, we're asking that mentors have taken some of the following
steps to be part of our community:

1. Solve a first-timers issue https://code.publiclab.org#r=all.
   Provide the link to the first timer issue's pull request (PR) once it's
   merged. In case, you are not able to find any first-timer issue, solve
   issue marked as fto-candidate or support, these issues may require
   little more work, but we'll try to help.
2. Solve a help-wanted issue
   https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/help-wanted. Help wanted
   issues are issues which are not labelled as gci-candidate neither as
   fto-candidate nor as first-timer-only. Provide link to such issues'
   merged PR.
   (Make sure you claim the issue first by commenting on issue you are
   planning to solve)
3. make a first-timers issue. Use the extra friendly template
   https://publiclab.org/n/13667 which we generally use for creating
   our first timer issues. Provide the link to the first timer issue which is
   created by you.

Mentors check in with a student at least once per week roughly from
May-August, and offer some project management guidance and encouragement...
while relying on the chatroom https://publiclab.org/chat and the
@publiclab/reviewers https://github.com/orgs/publiclab/teams/reviewers
group to provide code-specific input, so that we share the burden of
specific technical support. We have weekly Check-Ins on GitHub (#4548
https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/4548) as well, and mentors
are expected (along with students!) to be in the rotation to post these
occasionally.

Remember that to be a mentor you don't necessarily need to know how to
code -- we also need mentors who know Public Lab's community and practices
well, and who can encourage students to speak up when they get stuck, and
to ask the community for input and testing of their work. Students often
get stuck when they don't know how something should look, or how a feature
might be used by the community -- contextual info!
Priorities this year

This year we are aiming to bring some focus on high-priority projects to
the program, and we’d like all mentors to help to encourage these new
priorities. Some are highlighted in our ideas list
https://publiclab.org/wiki/gsoc-ideas, which lists our top community
projects. We’re much more likely to accept projects that source from this
list, although we’re happy to provide input on other suggested ideas too!

Others are covered in our [ROADMAP])
https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/05-22-2019/draft-of-a-public-lab-software-roadmap-comments-welcome),
which emphasizes code stability, testing, maintainability, and reducing
technical debt.

However, it does note that new projects can be developed in a “satellite”
format, where they first achieve stability as separate repositories, before
being proved out and integrated into PublicLab.org. With lots of people
proposing React projects last year (for example), we really want to see
such a project developed separately with a limited scope (like, just the
commenting system, or just the dashboard), and proved out before being
considered for integration.

Finally, we have a new Style Guide this year, which we are strongly
encouraging people to read carefully before proposing design changes or
refinements:
https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/05-07-2019/introducing-a-draft-style-guide-for-public-lab

Thanks!

If you're interested in being a mentor, leave a comment here -- and read
over our software outreach resources
https://publiclab.org/software-outreach to get an idea of how we work!

Some key resources on mentoring:

• read over our Summer of Code workflow here
  https://publiclab.org/wiki/gsoc#How+we+work
• read these extra notes on our approach here
  https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/12/google-summer-of-code-2016-wrap-up_21.html
• read different ways to mentor in this post
  https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/11-08-2016/help-public-lab-s-software-grow-by-joining-a-supportive-team
  -- we need various types!
• read about what reviewers do day-to-day on Public Lab code projects
  https://publiclab.org/wiki/developers#Reviewers
• read about our commitment to modularity
  https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/01-18-2018/software-outreach-modularity-is-great-for-collaboration,
  very important in how we ask contributors to work
• check out our growing list of software outreach strategies
  https://publiclab.org/software-outreach

Thanks a lot, and we're happy to answer questions!

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Hi! I would be more than excited to be a mentor for Google Summer of Code 2020. I fulfill all the above criteria, and am well aware about the practices of PL. Last year, my experience as a GSoC student has been mesmerising, and this time, I want to join the mentor team to help others code for a good cause. I am well aware of IS as project and have some ideas that can be taken into account this year for the GSoC projects. Really excited if I can be a part of the program once again!! ❤️:heart:

I am free this summer. I can mentor plots2, MK, SWB. Trying to get started with Editor, IS and LDI so that I can help there too :-)

Hi! I would like to be a mentor for Google Summer of Code 2020. I fulflll
the criteria mentioned above and till now working with PL I understood the
workflow also and I will definitely be working with great enthusiasm for
the upcoming GSOC.

Hello! I would also love to be a mentor!
I think I fulfill all the criteria and being part of the PL community and also being a mentor in GCI, I am well aware of the practices followed and can certainly contribute more. Really excited if I can be a part of the mentoring team.

I Would love to be a mentor too! I think i fulfill all the criteria, and will be glad to help out students this summer :tada:

@jywarren Hello, I'd love to mentor for GSOC 2020! I've gone through the criteria and working on the same.

Great

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@jywarren https://github.com/jywarren Hello, I'd love to mentor for
GSOC 2020! I've gone through the criteria and working on the same.

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Hey, I saw the ideas for SoC this year for publiclab. I would like to know if 'community-toolbox' will be there in the GSoC project this year, I would really like to work on that one. Thanks :)

Hi,
I'd love to apply to your organization as an outreachy intern. I started contributing to the organization's project and I believe I can help meet some of the goals outlined for this year's summer of code. Please let me know the guidelines I need to follow to make this a reality. thank you.

Google Code In 2019-20 Mentorship Prize Results
Hello everyone, this year was EPIC :rocket:. Over 127 students participated and 35 mentors participated this year :tada:. Around 11 repositories participated this year 💯 . We completed the Login/Sign Up and Oauth Milestone and System Tests 🎖 for the entire plots2 repository. Addition to this, please check the pulse monthly

This is greater than SoC programs we had earlier. 💯 This is just for plots2.
Similar progress for other repositories like leaflet, LDI, Editor, MK, SWB, IS and many more.
We are proud to have you all this winter. We have already filled the results for students. Google will be announcing them on 10 February.
Regarding mentors, we will be happy to announce them now 🎉 🎉 🎉
@keshav234156 GCI GRAND PRIZE SUMMIT + PL KIT
@ananyaarun GSOC SUMMIT(If GCI mentor is invited, in 2019 gci mentor was invited. We hope this year also, GCI mentor is invited) + PL Kit
Following mentors will be awarded a PL Kit for their contribution at Public Lab
Ananya, Keshav, Debashish, Mayank Pathela, Sasha, Isha, Sudipto and Harman Jolly. 🥇
I have sent an email for the PL kits. Kindly order that using the coupon code I emailed you all.
Thanks and let's start with GSoC and outreachy 🚀
Let's make it more encouraging and collaborative than past years

We will be happy to see you all in GSoC too 👍

Hey, I saw the ideas for SoC this year for publiclab. I would like to know if 'community-toolbox' will be there in the GSoC project this year, I would really like to work on that one. Thanks :)

Some tasks which I am thinking of focusing on are
1.) Implementing 'Hall of fame' issues list function.
2.) Writing adapter for Gitlab and other system.
3.) Working on 'Community Toolbox for any open source project'
4.)And I was also thinking of working on the UI/UX of the page, it looks good but there's lot of scrolling which can be reduced and improve the UX.

I would love to be part of SWB-js project.

Mayank are you willing to participate as a student or mentor?
One person can either be student or mentor

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I would love to be part of SWB-js project.

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Hi, I don't think I would be eligible as a student as by the time acceptance date I will be graduated. I would serve as a mentor.

You can do as a student if at time of enrollment you are student

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Hi, I don't think I would be eligible as a student as by the time
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You can do as a student if at time of enrollment you are student

😅 Okay, thanks. But it might also happen that my current internship end-date will overlap with GSoC. SO applying for the student will be tough.

You can choose. We will love to have you as mentor or student

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😅 Okay, thanks. But it might also happen that my current internship
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You can choose. We will love to have you as mentor or student

Thanks 😄!

Hi everyone,

Don't we have any project ideas on image sequencer for GSoC ?

I have a suggestion for a project on image sequencer to rewrite everything in reactjs freshly and have testing for every component.

Is this a good idea ?

Hi everyone,

Don't we have any project ideas on image sequencer for GSoC ?

I have a suggestion for a project on image sequencer to rewrite everything in reactjs freshly and have testing for every component.

Is this a good idea ?

@jywarren what do you say ?

Hi everyone,

Don't we have any project ideas on image sequencer for GSoC ?

I have a suggestion for a project on image sequencer to rewrite everything on reactjs freshly and have testing for every component.

Is this a good idea ?

For me it's a great idea. But it sounds like way more than a 3 months project.

Hi everyone,

Don't we have any project ideas on image sequencer for GSoC ?

I have a suggestion for a project on image sequencer to rewrite everything in reactjs freshly and have testing for every component.

Is this a good idea ?

Interested to work on this @harshithpabbati , if you guide me through your mentorship.

Hi everyone,
Don't we have any project ideas on image sequencer for GSoC ?
I have a suggestion for a project on image sequencer to rewrite everything in reactjs freshly and have testing for every component.
Is this a good idea ?

Interested to work on this @harshithpabbati , if you guide me through your mentorship.

@pydevsg I am interested in applying as a Student for GSoC 2020. Since @jywarren asked me to suggest idea over here, so I did 😅

Okay @harshithpabbati

Hey, I saw the ideas for SoC this year for publiclab. I would like to know if 'community-toolbox' will be there in the GSoC project this year, I would really like to work on that one. Thanks :)

Some tasks which I am thinking of focusing on are
1.) Implementing 'Hall of fame' issues list function.
2.) Writing adapter for Gitlab and other system.
3.) Working on 'Community Toolbox for any open source project'
4.)And I was also thinking of working on the UI/UX of the page, it looks good but there's lot of scrolling which can be reduced and improve the UX.

I've added more points for Community-Toolbox project, which I would like to work on as GSoC project:

`Adding New features:

1.) Implementing 'Hall of fame' issues list function, and addition of the ‘Hall of fame issues’ list at bottom.
2.) Modal View of the contributors, Clicking on the avatars, will show their Commits, contributions and issues.
3.) Adding gitter integration so that the newcomer doesn’t have any trouble finding the IRC Channel and can easily drop a text if facing any problem.
4.) FTO Issues shuffle suggestion to the new user instead of the list, this will help the newcomer by showing appropriate suggestion, and if the issue is not like by the newcomer, they can reshuffle it.
5.) FTO list currently shows all the FTO Issues which are open, we can further filter FTO which are not assigned to anybody yet. Can also add an option (Drop Down) to filter FTO's based on projects. We can also filter by if there’s any PR attached to the issue.

Changing the UI/UX for further helping the newcomer:

1.) Adding search bar field in select repository Drop-Down menu.
2.) Adding github basic videos for beginners, helping them enter the open-source community.
3.) Adding the side navigation bar, as currently website is quite long and have lots of information on single page, to improve its UX, side navbar can be added so the user does not get lost.
4.) Adding the in-list scrolling, the current webpage is long, which can be reduced by implementing the scrolling for bigger lists. (eg. candidates, FTO's, Contributors), (Currently working on this).`

Hi everyone,

Don't we have any project ideas on image sequencer for GSoC ?

I have a suggestion for a project on image sequencer to rewrite everything in reactjs freshly and have testing for every component.

Is this a good idea ?

@publiclab/is-reviewers what do you guys say ?

I too would like to add some project ideas for IS

1. Adding tensorflow.js to IS so as to run trained fully convolutional network directly on browser
2. Dockerizing the whole project
3. Right now IS only lets us visualise the steps sequentially. What if we could add a functionality in browser where we could visualise multiple steps at the same time( making IS in browser tree like data structure)

I have some more ideas but these are the most suitable ones.

I am a student and would like to work upon them

Hello all,
We are glad to have your responses. We love it.
GSoC and Outreachy both enable students to propose their own ideas and post a proposal on their own idea OR choose one from the proposed idealist from the organisation.
The ideas which are present in the idealist are priority milestones for Public Lab. Still, we are open to new ideas for all repositories. :-)
I don't have specialization in Community toolbox nor IS, so I will not be able to help much there. Maybe @HarshKhandeparkar @VladimirMikulic and @Uzay-G be willing to chime in for these ideas as they have contributed there.
Thanks all.

:+1:

I also don't have good knowledge with those repos, but what would be the purpose of adding a neural network to IS?

I know about neural networks and ml stuff. Can help there !

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I also don't have good knowledge with those repos, but what would be the
purpose of adding a neural network to IS?

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Yes adding some ml algorithms to IS is a great idea !! Would love to mentor this project :)

Hey folks , I am interested in the project of site wide accessibilty for PublicLab.org as my GSoC project.I was preparing my proposal for it I thought to just discuss some of my ideas for it.The following are my ideas:-

1. Generating automatic alt text for images by using microsoft computer vision gem.
2. Using ARIA to label buttons and form fields, using aria-live for alert messages.
3. Performing colorblindness analysis and accessibility scans using axe-core and solving them by improving color contrast issues.
4. Automatic linting of pull requests using Accesslint.
5. Maintaining coverage by accessibility tests by help of axe-matchers gem.
   Please share your views on my ideas @jywarren @SidharthBansal .Thanks

@Uzay-G @SidharthBansal @ananyaarun Thanks for your interest. As IS is mainly about image to image translation, deep learning would much further increase the overall capability.

One example would be the following

In the above given image we could convert the left image into the style of the right image to get the bottom image.

There are many other examples of image to image translation which could be achieved by tensorflow.js

Some more examples

1.

1. Increasing the resolution of the image

Hey, what is think I as there are so many errors in UI and also a bit messy, for improving this I have an idea to replace the codes of bootstrap and write your own CSS as this will be more flexible.

I would like to participate as a student in GSoC.

hello,
@jywarren @emilyashley @sagarpreet-chadha @SidharthBansal can you please describe more about this idea https://publiclab.org/wiki/gsoc-ideas#Leaflet+Environmental+Layers+(LEL):+time+slider+UI
As of now all i can understand is that the idea is about adding timeline feature in LEL library.
something like this:

please correct me if i am missing something.
love to work on this idea, this summer as a student.

Hey @saurabhkanswal , i have to discuss this with @emilyashley and @jywarren but i am sure the project will not be only to implement this slider as it is already a solved problem. Thanks!

@jywarren I can't find publiclab project listed at the outreachy website.Do I need to look somewhere else for the project?

This year, I will commit my time to mentor the interns

This year PL is under DIAL for GSoC so our priority will be towards the idea-list. However, we are open to ML and React too. Both of these domains will take more time than summer for completion, I guess

@sssash18 I liked your ideas. Please start with the proposal

@SidharthBansal is publiclab going to participate in the summer round of Outreachy I can't seem to find the project on their website?

Please ping Emily and Jeff. I have not received emails for GSoC nor
Outreachy for 2 months.
Thanks

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@SidharthBansal https://github.com/SidharthBansal is publiclab going to
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@emilyashley @jywarren is publiclab going to participate in the summer round of Outreachy I can't seem to find the project on their website?

This year PL is under DIAL for GSoC so our priority will be towards the idea-list. However, we are open to ML and React too. Both of these domains will take more time than summer for completion, I guess

@sssash18 I liked your ideas. Please start with the proposal

Thanks @SidharthBansal for your approval. I will post the proposal soon.

I will also participate as mentor this year 🎈

@SidharthBansal @jywarren
Will it be fine if I include accessibility testing by axe-matchers gem using RSpec as part of my GSoC project proposal on Site wide accessibility?

Subhash I think it will be fine.
Thanks all for your support

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Will it be fine if I include accessibility testing by axe-matchers gem
using RSpec as part of my GSoC project on Site wide accessibility?

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Hey @saurabhkanswal , i have to discuss this with @emilyashley and @jywarren but i am sure the project will not be only to implement this slider as it is already a solved problem. Thanks!

hey @sagarpreet-chadha any update on the idea https://publiclab.org/wiki/gsoc-ideas#Leaflet+Environmental+Layers+(LEL):+time+slider+UI
thanks:)

Hey,
Yes let me contact @emilyashley and discuss this. Thanks for the patience :smile:

Hello, I hope I'm writing this in the right place (coming form the mailing list) :) I'm a first-timer GSoC student aspirant with a 4.0 GPA and quite some experience with Javascript frameworks, Ruby on Rails and CSS styling - who unfortunately didn't claim a "first-timer-issue" in time, but who would love to contribute to the "Printability of posts and wiki pages" project. Are there perhaps any other issues I could take up to contribute and guide myself in the right direction?

Hi @SusannaDiV!
Welcome to the community :rocket: :rocket: :rocket:
This thread is for GSoC mentors :)

Currently, the priority is email related issues.
Since you know RoR, you could help us resolve them.

If you have any more question feel free to contact me.
Also, don't forget to visit and introduce yourself to our community on Gitter.

We are looking forward to work with you :+1:

Hey everyone, a couple of proposals have been posted on the PL website https://publiclab.org/notes/cess/03-02-2020/call-for-2020-soc-proposals-gsoc-and-outreachy, please take a few minutes to review and give feedback. Thanks

Hi awesome mentors,
Thanks for the great work you are doing. We need some help reviewing the applicants pull requests having only a week left to the end of the application period. Please help so that they can submit strong applications. @publiclab/mentors @publiclab/reviewers. Thanks

Hi @Tlazypanda were you able to find the Public Lab pages on Outreachy? I think you may have been looking too early... they should be there now!

@harshithpabbati @pydevsg @ataata107 IS is a great project and we will support it through the programs if we can. But we may have a much smaller number of slots this year in GSoC as we are participating under an umbrella organization. If any of the priority projects from the ideas list look interesting to you, it may be a good idea to mention them and see if you could compose a proposal from one of them... thank you!

I ❤️ IS a lot but I know we'll face some tough choices with a limited number of slots this year. Thank you so much for your interest!

and, hi all, if other mentors are interested we could use the help in leaving reviews for open proposals so far:

GSoC proposals so far: https://publiclab.org/notes/cess/03-02-2020/call-for-2020-soc-proposals-gsoc-and-outreachy

And here for Outreachy proposals: https://publiclab.org/notes/liz/03-09-2020/call-for-outreachy-2020-proposals

For example i left some detailed feedback here suggesting breaking a project up into functional and UI portions, as well as thinking about testing, and finally ordering projects so easiest sub-parts come first in the timeline, and can be published to the live site, before taking on more difficult portions:

https://publiclab.org/notes/keshav_sethi0004/03-12-2020/gsoc-2020-proposal-spam-management-dashboard#c26535

That's good advice for everyone! Thanks, all, and stay safe!

Reviewing Proposals!

@jywarren Last time I applied as a mentor but this time I am participating as a student. I had already started with a proposal on Leaflet Environmental Layers (LEL): time slider UI.
@sagarpreet-chadha It is not a high priority project so can you suggest some pointers to make it more interesting. Also, I will submit the proposal for review by day after tomorrow.

Hi @sagarpreet-chadha how can I add my name to the list of projects as mentor? I was not able to find any option there!

Got that thanks!!

Some pointers top of my heads:

1. Study the existing layer's data and segregate layers where we have time attribute.
2. Make mocks of how time slider may look on map.
3. Make the time slider generic so that it canbe used with any layer with any data json.
4. It should be easy to use --- the UX part.
5. You may have to do some research on how it is done on other websites.
6. Tests and documentation

I think these points cover up most of the things.
@jywarren , @emilyashley do you guys want to add anything else on this list. Thanks!

@sagarpreet-chadha I had uploaded my proposal on gsoc website but when i published it on Public Lab it asks for approval.is there any issue if i directly put int on gsoc?Still some time is left

@Dhiraj240 I highly recommend you upload it on GSoC app, asap and then you can do it here later as well.

@Divy123 Thank you, I have uploaded it, could you check I guess you are also one of the mentors.

Hi mentors! Moving to our welcome/planning issue here! https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/7873

@cesswairimu just posted the 2021 call for mentors here! https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/9219 -- thank you all!!