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DuraSpace Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

Google Summer of Code This is the homepage of the DuraSpace Google Summer of Code projects.   We also have a DuraSpace profile off of the GSoC website.

2011 is here and its time for another Summer of Code, courtesy of Google! For those who don't know, Summer of Code is an amazing program in which student developers are paid a stipend by Google in exchange for working on open source projects along with mentors from those projects.

For specific deadlines and registration information, please visit the Google Summer of Code website.

DuraSpace Technology

DuraSpace is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that provides leadership and innovation in open source and cloud-based technologies primarily for libraries, universities, research centers, and cultural heritage organizations. DuraSpace software and services are used worldwide as solutions for institutional repositories, open access publishing, digital libraries, digital archives, digital collections, data curation, virtual research environments, and more. DuraSpace is committed to serving the creators and stewards of our scholarly, scientific, and cultural heritage by providing technologies and services that help to ensure that digital content is accessible over the long term. Accordingly, the DuraSpace technology portfolio inherently addresses the issue of durability of digital content.

The DuraSpace organization provides leadership and innovation around these open technology platforms:

For More Information on Our Technologies

For an overview of each of our supported technology platforms, please see the DuraSpace Technologies page on our website. For additional details, see the Additional Technology Resources section below.

Not all of these platforms may provide projects for a given Google Summer of Code.  It all depends on whether or not mentors are available during that given year. See below for information about which DuraSpace open technologies have projects available for this year's Google Summer of Code.

GSoC Projects Available

For Google Summer of Code 2011, the following DuraSpace open technologies have projects available:

Additional Technology Resources

If you are unfamiliar with any our supported open technology platforms, these resources may help get you started.

Obviously, if you have questions, feel free to contact the appropriate technology team via their developer's mailing list (see GSoC Projects Available section above for links to technology mailing lists).

Student Application Process

The determination of appropriate projects is a collaborative effort between those community members (preferably developers) and students (preferably computer science students or adepts). We highly recommend that prospective students join the appropriate IRC channel and mailing lists and discuss project ideas with the community prior to submitting a proposal.  See the GSoC Information page (in GSoC Project Available section above) for a given DuraSpace technology for links to that technology's IRC channel(s) and mailing list(s).

The order of your proposal submission is irrelevant in the decision making process for selection. What is more important is that the mentors for your project have a strong interest in supporting it during the evaluation process.

Review the existing project ideas (see GSoC Project Available section above) or suggest your own and place your student proposal at the GSoC Site: http://socghop.appspot.com

A word of warning, in past years, bulk applications have been immediately rejected as "insincere".

All proposals should effectively outline:

  1. who you are (i.e. your academic background)
  2. why you want to participate
  3. what you propose to do (and with which DuraSpace technology or technologies)
  4. how you propose to do it
  5. a clearly defined timeline/project plan (may obviously overlap with "how you propose to do it" above)
  6. a code sample (preferably Java) or reference to a project you've worked on in past
  7. and finally your general contact information (email, Skype, IM, etc.)

The student application process can be competitive. Last year, DSpace technology alone received about 30 applications, of which only 4 projects were awarded by Google. Yes, that is correct, we do not select how many students can ultimately win. We only rank them according to the community's interest in mentoring the project. Many years it is as much a competition between the mentors as it is the students.

Good luck! We look forward to seeing your project ideas!

Past DuraSpace GSoC Projects

Below is a listing of past Google Summer of Code projects, listed by DuraSpace technology:

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