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Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Sugar Labs will be applying in Google Summer of Code 2019 as a mentor organisation. See GSoC 2019 timeline for more details
Checkout our archives of GSoC Projects: 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018
We have a lot of interesting project ideas for you. There is
Sugar OS, Sugar Activities, Music Blocks and Sugarizer. You
can start by going through them and see what would you like
to work on.
After that, you can go through our Ideas page
to see our proposed ideas. We would love to hear your own ideas
as well.
You should familiarise yourself with our code, by reporting and fixing bugs. This will assure us that you will be able to work on the project ;-)
Before you start writing your proposal, go through our Proposal Template.
We use #sugar and #sugar-meeting channels on
IRC and
sugar-devel@
mailing list for communication. You can join our IRC channels
and mailinig list to participate in the discussions and asking
for help.
At Sugar Labs we have opportunities for contributing with many different programming languages and libraries;
- Sugar,
- Activities for Sugar,
- Sugar Toolkit (API),
- Sugar Datastore (API),
- Sugarizer,
- Music Blocks,
- Activities for Sugarizer or Sugar,
- Sugar Web (API),
- Browse, Help and Wikipedia activities for Sugar,
- Paint activity for Sugar,
- Sugar Toolkit (API; display session management, audio),
- gst-plugins-espeak (API; GStreamer, GObject),
- sugarize (API; X11),
- Sugar Runner,
- Prosody Jabber/XMPP server jabber.sugarlabs.org,
- Telepathy (API; collaboration),
- Wikipedia activity for Sugar (data compression algorithms),
- activities.sugarlabs.org, the activity store,
- RiverHex activity for Sugar,
- Sugar,
- build tools,
- as long as it works, and you can demonstrate it works, and it doesn't make something more complicated than it needs to be, it is probably welcome.
Got a problem? Ask your mentors, ask other students, or ask the Sugar Labs community.
The Sugar Labs community is large, and there are people who are not mentors in the contest. Mentors are listed. Everyone else you talk with may be a non-mentor.
Students should keep in mind that some people are non-mentors, and cannot see the contest progress, dates, or information about students. When communicating widely, be sure to;
- Introduce yourself, the first time,
- Talk about the task as if you want to do it yourself, not because of the contest,
- Defend your technical decisions without using the contest as a defense,
- Non-mentors may give good guidance on technical decisions, but bad guidance on how they think a task is judged. Always consult with your mentors as well.
Everyone in the community has to be polite and respectful, and consider everyone else a member of a team and not a competitor.
One should be considerate to everyone else's time. We would like to have quality discussions, and not answer questions that are already documented, or available on stackoverflow. This doesn't mean you can't ask questions, but a clueless user and a lazy developer are two different things.
Tell things as you see them. Be polite, but don't sugar coat it. You don't have to apologize everytime you make a mistake; but avoid repeating it again ;-)
Also see our Code of Conduct