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From YouTube: GSoC'22 - Myths and Facts | Webinar with Yash Lamba - SDE - HackerRank | CodeChef XIMUB Chapter

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Hello Everyone!

We were delighted to have Mr. Yash Lamba, an SDE at HackerRank and previously a Contributor to GSoC'19 - Python Software Foundation and a Mentor in GSoC'20 to share his thoughts and experiences about Google Summer of Code.

Here's a recording of the Zoom Session. Hope you find it Informative and it helps you in getting Shortlisted for GSoC'22.

Thank You!

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A

Speaker, respected faculties and all your participants, it's a pleasure to have you here with us. This is mriti.

B

And this is nay and we will be hosting our first event as the college chapter today, we will get a brief insight about google slumber, of course, also known as gsoc, which is an international open source contribution program hosted by google every year.

A

We would like to invite our respected dean, dr rudra mohan, to inaugurate this program and address the gathering. Sir. Over to you.

C

Thank you, smoothie and sneha. So go to that, you have taken that initiative as yours. Probably this is your first program under this belt, of course, safe student chapters exam university- and this is really a good step a nice day, I'm looking forward to it before just before five minutes. I have gone through this. What is called google's summer call- and I found it- is really encouraging because it works with the open source environment and when we talked about open source environment, we know that we learn through collaboration right.

C

That is what is called open source. Now, when we are talking about the programming languages, programming languages, as we have gone through the courses we as the faculty, we have the teachers can able to see you. What is the logic of the maybe syntax or semantics of the program right, but the logical skill is what is needed when you want to be a good programmer and logical skill. Is nobody is going to teach you right?

C

This is what is you have to learn by yourself, who are actually be a good logical, brain or logical skill supposed to be a good programmer right? I hope this kind of activity or when you attend this kind of code shape the program will be google summer code of cam and you attended this program. Probably that will be increased right when that is the most important point for every student right at the end. What we want, we want to be a good system or software programmer.

C

Maybe we want to go to a higher scale, go to maybe for research line. If you in want to go to research field that also you need programming skills right, which is key for us as a computer science. This is our unique identity and there's a computer science engineer and how to improve this and to improve this. I think this is a best medium and you should go and forward to and attend this kind of uh event, and so so take part in spreading the summer camp, and I really welcome yeah.

C

Yes, mr vyas lamba for means accepting this invitation from the students and do share your thoughts about how you how the students supposed to prepare so welcome. Welcome mr yas to this program, yeah good right. I I hope that should be more more than that number of participations we have only 39 student or maybe 37 36 number of students participated, but I hope this will be.

C

Maybe this will be a fast program. I suppose that it should be participated by almost all students, not necessarily first year, not necessarily second year or third year or fourth year. It has to be every year. Every student right has to be a good system programmer, so I am looking forward to it. I will definitely have a have a look at this two hours. Let's see how I can see, but I'll try to attend the seasons, let's see how I can go through this okay right over to you, smoothie and sneha.

C

Thank you thank you for inviting me, and I hope this whatever the durations you are put to your program, definitely a fruitful for all of the students and again thanks thanks this code. Safe team for your nice initiative right, I looking forward. Thank you.

A

Thank you, sir, for your warm and encouraging words, and uh we hope that all of the participants learn a lot through this event. Now without much ado, I would like to invite our speaker for the session mr yash lamba, who is a software development engineer at hackerrank.

A

He was a contributor at gsoc, 2019 and event mentor at gsoft2020.. It's a pleasure having you, sir, so you may proceed with your session over to user.

D

Thank you, smoothie uh I'll, just share my screen. First.

D

I hope you can see the presentation here.

A

D

Okay, so before starting, I would like to like introduce myself. I am yash, I am still a student. I am a senior at cluster innovation, center university of delhi and I have been developing since I was in my 10th grade, and uh I would I really like to share my experiences wherever I code. However, I develop I'm currently a software developer at hack rank.

D

I was an intern before joining them as a full-time developer, and I have been involved with open source community since my first year uh when I participated in google or some google server of code. So I hope you learn a lot from the session and I will keep it really brief uh throughout the session. I'll encourage you to ask questions like uh this is a part how open source builds and how uh we build software. We ask questions, we learn things and then we develop.

D

So my presentation is really brief, but I still want that. A lot of you ask questions as I would encourage you to do that throughout the ppt. I guess so starting uh this session is about google summer of code and everything you need to know about it. So our agenda would be what, when and how like, how how you get selected in open source. What's g, what's google summer of code, how you select, how how do you get selected in it, uh the whole selection process and how you can evolve?

D

You can learn new skills through google server. Of course, my personal suggestions, my views, I I hold very different views from a lot of people and I hope that uh you find it motivating, and I look forward that you learn more things and fourth part is your doubts. I am very hopeful that a lot of people will ask questions and I'll answer. I try to answer them all.

D

So what is open source open source, as the name suggests? It's just software with whose source code you can see. So it's not always that you can contribute to open source software. It's sometimes that you can just see the source code and you can use that software so that you don't introduce any security vulnerabilities or things like that, but most of the times open source software means that there's a community around the software and a lot of people together. Work on that project and contribute to it.

D

So, let's say a very, very popular open source projects are firefox mozilla firefox. Everyone has used that uh flutter is an open source project that is used to build really amazing, apps and websites, and get get that we use everywhere in open source each and every company uses it is also open source and even the operating systems. The free operating system. Linux is open source, so open source is like the whole world. The whole software community depends on it and we see a lot of uh there.

D

There are like a lot of organizations, amazing organizations that you can go ahead and contribute to. So I would encourage you to read more about open source rather than the programs, because, together like we can build and create better software, uh regardless of participating in any program.

D

So what is gsa? Gsoc is a program hosted by google uh it's to promote open source culture, it's to promote organizations to celebrate those organizations who are doing so well and making great software. It helps all those organizations get contributors and these organizations then in turn mentor them for the summer uh contributors.

D

Like you like me, get a platform to contribute and, in turn, get rewarded for the contribution. Since google is maintaining, google pays the developers uh for contributing to the organizations and the biggest thing is it's beginner friendly. Anyone can go ahead and contribute to open source to any organization. It doesn't matter what your skill level is, even if you're, not from a computer science background you are from a let's say, writing background, create a background. You can still contribute to a lot of projects.

D

uh So briefly, I would like to talk about the organizations which get selected. These are some of the very popular organizations. Most of you would have heard about them. So what happens is like you apply, uh like students apply to the organizations uh in before that in february, uh organizations also apply to google for getting selected to gsoc getting selected for gsoc and organizations need to make an ideal list. They prepare ideas, they prepare projects that the students would like to work on and they also get rewarded for each and every student that gets elected.

D

So it's not just you applying to the organization. It's also for the organizations to get selected in gsoc and then in turn select your students. So these are some really popular organization.

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D

I personally worked with the python software foundation in 2019 and I have been a mentor and contributor since then, uh so, okay, so getting selected into gsoc, uh it's not it's not very difficult. A lot of people say that a lot of people have this conception in mind that it's very difficult to get selected in gsoc, but google summer of code is really easy and it's beginner friendly. So generally, the pattern is that you research, you, research. Well you research throughout or like throughout, throughout the organizations that are listed on the gsox website.

D

You do your research, you find a project that you, like you understand. You want to contribute to you. Talk to a lot of people and communication is key. Like you talk to a lot of people in open source, and then you finalize, this is the project that I would like to contribute to uh so yeah. This is the research part and then comes the pre gsoc part that is from that is generally before you send your proposal and that's generally in march and april.

D

So before you send your proposal for a project, you contribute and interact with the community. The project you try to fix issues you like try to find things that you can work on throughout the summer and you like very basically prepare for your project and then you create a proposal that you plan. You first plan it with the mentor. You see the idealist, you see the project, you discuss it with your mentor. You discuss the scope, you discuss the timeline.

D

How will you proceed? You will frame your proposal and then apply uh after that uh if, if you're lucky, if you did your work, if you did your job well, you'll get selected for google somewhere, of course. So during the during the program, you learn a lot, so it doesn't matter. If you know like you are, you are an expert at python. You are an expert at any programming language. You can still learn and go.

D

uh You can learn as you go, so my personal project, which I got selected for, I had no idea how I would contribute to it. I had no idea. I just talked to my mentor and he motivated me that I know your programming skills and I know that you can do it. So just send us a proposal and when I got selected I learned throughout the summer and in turn completed my project so yeah. This is the general port pattern. Everyone follows for google summer code, uh some myths about gsoc.

D

These are like really, I get messages on linkedin every day and people use these myths every time like they are always confused about these things in g-shock. So first thing is ukraine g-shock. A lot of people ask me: how can I crack g-shock- and this is like a really bad statement to use, uh because you don't crack these socks, it's not a competitive exam. You don't have to you're, not complete competing with anyone. You are the only person you're committed competing with is yourself. You are improving yourself.

D

You are building yourself, you are learning new skills and then you contribute the project. So it doesn't matter other people get selected or not. It doesn't matter uh that they had more contributions. They had better proposal. Nothing like that. It's on you, you, don't you don't need to rank yourself among other people. You need to have a good proposal. You need to have a good.

D

You need to have good understanding of the code and, most importantly, you need to have good interaction with the mentors, so I hope, like no one would use this term crack for gsoc like later in front of any mentor or anyone.

D

uh It's only for pros. So this again a lot of people in my college uh used to say this that you are now a pro pro programmer. That's why you are able to do gsoft. That's why you'll get selected, but it's not true. I got selected in python software foundation and believe it or not. I started learning python in february and got selected in april, so this is just like a two month period and I got selected in the organization that built python.

D

So, if I can do it, I believe anyone can do it. So all the all pro all open source programs, including g-socks, are really beginner friendly. uh Given today today we have, we are in january january, and the proposals will begin in march and april. So any one of you, even if you don't know anything about programming, I still believe you can get selected in gsoc.

D

uh Another misconception is that you work with google, so a lot of people say that you interned for google. You worked for google. uh This is not true at all. Like you don't work for google at all. This is not a google internship.

D

The only thing google does is is maintain the program host the program and you work for an organization, an open source organization, and what google does is. It pays both the organization and the students, so google is basically funding the program to promote open source.

D

uh You need hundreds of contributions before getting selected into gsoc. This is not true at all like there are. This is like organization dependent, so a lot of organizations don't even need any content. They don't even need you to set up the project. They just need a good proposal on. How would you how you would work on the project? Some organizations do take interviews. uh Some organization looks and look at the proposals, and contributions are always good, but they are not at all necessary.

D

So don't get demotivated that other people have this these many contributions. I don't have any contributions. I won't get selected, and this is like this is not true. I personally know people who made hundreds of contributions and didn't get selected, and I know people who made zero contributions just sent the proposal and got selected, so this always happens and uh you don't need to get demoted by others. As I said, it's not competitive. It's collaborative so now. My personal suggestions on gsoc like how you can increase your your chances of getting selected.

D

So the things is the the thing is that you need to have the right mindset towards g-shock you, don't you don't need to stress yourself pressure yourself into getting selected into gso, so a lot of people from computer science come from a background where you give je exams. You competed with a lot of people to get into good colleges.

D

It's nothing like that. It's more! It's it's more of a collaborative thing than a competitive thing. So if you help your friends get selected, that's a good thing! It's not that if your friend gets elected, you won't get selected. So collaborate with people around you, collaborate with mentors collaborate with other people contributing to gsoc, and then that would be really helpful for you.

D

So four points I want you to remember: is it's easy, no matter where you are in your journey, no matter how much programming you know how much you don't know you can still do gsoc like even if you are starting with programming today, you can still get selected in gsoc 22 and I am really sure of it. If you just uh do the hard work part.

D

So again, this I have repeated again and again: it's not competitive. It's collaborative collaborate with people, talk to people and you'll, get you'll, get to learn a lot of things and you'll get to contribute to amazing projects. Next is communicate when you get stuck always ask ask for help. A lot of people are like they hold this to their egos that we, if we ask for help, then we'll look like that. We are stupid, but it's never true.

D

uh I myself still ask for basic doubts with from my mentors from other developers from senior developers, even from my juniors there are. There has, there has been a lot of times and I t I get taught by my juniors internal teach them so communication is important and there are more than enough people willing to help you and try and go ahead and ask for help.

D

Then focus on learning, so gsoc is not about just contributing working for an organization and getting paid gsoc has a really steep learning curve. You should go in with the mindset that you want to learn a new thing, so if I want to do gsoc again, this would be my mindset that, okay, I don't know this stack. If I know python, I won't do gsoc again in python I'll. Do it in something that I don't know, because gsoc has a good learning curve.

D

You contribute, you learn a lot of things and you you get to add a lot like a new skill by learning it by doing so, make hundreds of mistakes make any number of mistakes. No one would judge you in open source and uh focus on your learning more than just completing your project and getting done like getting it done getting paid. That's it.

D

So, according to me, what skills you need for gsoc is number one: is git and github, it's very good to know, get and github for g sub, because it's open source everyone would be using either github gitlab bitbucket any of these sites, and most of them would use get as their version control software. So if you know them high heart, you'll you'll save a lot of time uh and you'll be ahead.

D

You'll be ahead of a lot of people and you'll be able to make good contributions, and you won't have to ask these small doubts related to get github, because a lot of people get stuck in those uh communication. Communication skills are more important than programming skills for gsoc like if you are good at communicating with your mentors. If you're good at communicating with your peers, then I I assure you you'll you'll, be preferred over people who are better at the programming than you. uh This happened with me as well.

D

Like I, I bonded with my mentor a lot we had one-on-ones we had calls, and it is key that when you communicate clearly with your mentor he'll, he or she would be able to help you more clearly more effectively, so communicate. Ask questions, take help and give help and then programming for programming basics are enough initially, and then you just learn as you go.

D

You find a project very interesting, read about it. Everything is available on the internet. Do your research and learn as you go like whatever project you get selected in uh it doesn't matter. If you know how to do it or not, you can always learn and do it so some do's and don'ts for google somewhat code that those are always do.

D

Your research don't be like okay, this is my doubt I'll just go ahead and ask someone some the first person you should ask the question to is google if google doesn't give you an answer, then go ahead and ask someone else so this this should be a thumb rule throughout your programming journey. If google doesn't know, then ask someone else, because this will save a lot of their time and your time respect others, time and space, don't ping mentors personally, don't message, people on their phone numbers a lot of time. This has happened.

D

People go to my linkedin. Take my phone number and call me: that's a really bad thing: don't do it don't like professionally message the mentors reach them out on linkedin reach out to the social space starters in the project and respect their time and their space like they are also busy. They have other things to do as well, so it can take time for reviews, replies and etc.

D

Ask for help whenever you are stuck at a place that you cannot resolve yourself just go ahead and ask for yourself spend a day maximum on a thing you are stuck on and then go ahead and ask to ask for help. Ask it for like ask for help uh from your peers from your seniors from your mentors. Anyone you can, you think, would be willing to help uh add value to the project of course like when you contribute to a project. The project gets, uh gets some value out of you.

D

Add value to your peers, help them as much as much as you can and help yourself in learning new skills and get better. You become a better version of yourself. Don'ts are again like these are repetitive: uh reach, don't reach out for easily searchable doubts. Don't get impatient about replies and reviews. People take time.

D

The mentors are super busy. They are maintaining five six projects together, so they it will take time. It can take up two months for getting reviews on some code. So respect that getting stuck and not asking questions is. This is a lot of people do this, that they are egoistic about like I'll? Do it I'll do it, but they don't ask for help. If you ask for help a doubt that takes two weeks to get resolved will take five minutes and don't just focus on easy project that I'll get selected.

D

I if I contribute to this easy project, I'll definitely get selected. Don't have that mindset have the mindset that you need to learn new things so target difficult projects. I encourage you to target difficult projects because that way, you'll grow exponentially.

D

So there's just not like google summer of code is not the only program that you can contribute to. There are multiple others. Alibaba summer of code is a really good program. Outreachy outreach is limited to uh diverse communities, but uh it's it's also a really good program. Iris hgp fellowship. I got to know about this fellowship this month. Only this year, only one of my friends got selected in it. It's a really good program. It's mostly focused on space and physics, research and mls fellowship. I guess all of you must have heard of that.

D

Lfx mentorship a really great program, a lot of a lot of good projects and mentors, and there are many more if you go ahead and google open source programs, you'll find and you'll definitely find a very good list of all the programs that you can find.

D

uh This is just a motivation pose that no matter where you are in your journey, I expect that you get selected like I I'm 100 sure like. If I can do it, you can do it and any one of you who's targeting to get selected in gsoc can get selected in gsoc and now even the limit is off like you, don't have to be in a university, you can be anyone uh of age, 18 and more and you can get selected.

D

So that's about my presentation. I hope that you will have a lot of questions. It was brief introduction about gsoc. There are a lot of things related to organization, selections and things, but that's a really different topic to discuss on. So I hope you have a lot of questions for me. Thank you.

B

Thank you, sir. um Yes, so there were a lot of questions so uh I'll just read out some and for the other participants. If you have more, please drop down your questions, the chat box. So another question. So can you explain more about what should be included in the proposal like? Can we write if you want to uh fix a bug.

D

Okay, so the proposal is something that uh the first thing you should do is search look out for uh proposals like other people's proposals like pass, select the people who got selected in gsoc before you. A lot of them are available on github. They are available on open source organizations website read through them, so a good proposal is always the one which is more detailed.

D

uh Where you can explain that you will the more research you do, the more the amount of research, the better the proposal is, so you don't just write that I'll fix this book. A proposal is well thought out, like it's. It's a complete project that you have to work on for next three months. I think now you have also the limit for working for six months like for 300 hour projects, but it should be well thought out. You should have a good timeline and a very important thing is don't make the proposal on your own.

D

Take help from your mentors discuss the proposal with them discuss what they expect, discuss the scope, discuss the timeline and then don't be afraid to add things that you don't know. You can always learn throughout the summer throughout the program, and you can. I am like 100 sure you can just google, you can watch tutorials and you you will be able to do it with the help of your mentors and the resources available online.

B

So another question: if somebody's already participating in like open source has been continuing for a while can also be a g software computer.

D

uh So if you are contributing to open source, that's really great, but it depends on whether you, the organization you are contributing to get selected for g-sock. That's the question right: if you are contributing to open source, then you you can also get selected in g-shock. That's the question.

B

D

Yeah, so it depends whether the organization you are already contributing to it gets elected in g-shock or not, so it's always good to have on your profile, if other other organ, if you go ahead and contribute to contribute to other organizations, they'll look at your profile and they'll definitely see the contributions you have made to other projects, and you can always list them out in your proposal as well, that I have this much experience of contributing to these organizations and that will give a really good impact.

B

um They're asking: how can you approach the organization that they can uh that gets elected for gsoc to know the list and to find the right footprint.

D

Okay, so the best way is first go to the gsoc website and there must be a section where it will tell you that this is how you contact the organization. There are organizations that don't have this: uh they they don't have this channel available of communication. You just go to the repository you go to the project and you'll definitely find either a slack channel a discord channel a zeolip channel, a gator channel.

D

There is always a means of con like communicating to the mentors and if you don't find any the best way is that you just find out who is responsible for the project, who is the maintainer of the project and write them a polite email that I couldn't find a way to communicate with you. So if there's an official channel, please let me know if there is not, then how can we communicate about the project.

B

Okay, so the question: uh do we have to achieve all the hundred percent of the work we've mentioned in the proposal and if we get stuck at some point, do not manage at all the work like we are. We are not able to complete the work, will just certificate be held back.

D

So again, this depends on the organization, but most 99 of the organizations won't fail you. But if, if so happens that you don't complete your work, you decided that this much amount of work was like it's very lenient. It says it always says that this much hours are required and that's just the maximum limit. uh I personally didn't spend a lot of time in my gc project, because I comp my before the when I gave the proposal.

D

uh We thought that this is the scope like this is something I will be able to complete in six months, but I completed that in in the next three months, but I completed that in one month. So then I switched to my project. I made additional contributions, and this can also happen that you raise your you raise the expectations like you use. You give a project that would take at least six months, but you are expected to complete in three months.

D

The best way is just talk to your mentor. Decide that this is this amount of work can be done in this particular time time frame and they are always helpful and respectful of your time as well as the project, so they'll definitely help you out and it's it's not always necessary like they can they they have the authority of failing you. They can fail your evaluations, but if you reach out to them, tell them okay, I have been busy. I couldn't completely complete because of this reason, just let them know don't do this.

D

That, okay, you say I'll complete this thing in the next one month, but you just ghost them you don't appear, you don't talk to them. You don't reach out to them for any help. Just get stuck, and you are all trying to figure it out on your own and it takes one month and you are not able to complete that. So that's that's bad. So what you should do, is you get stuck you?

D

Don't you think you don't think that you would be able to complete it in one month, set up a call with your mentor, talk to them and then decide the way forward.

B

They wanted to say a lot of students wanted to know if they can contribute in a group like for a single project or for any open source. Can they form a group and contribute? And what was the maximum number of proposals that an individual could submit.

D

Okay, so the objective question that the maximum number of proposals you can submit, one person can sum it as three, but I don't recommend sending all three proposals. I recommend you get you send on like two one or two proposals to an organization that you are contributing to for a long time. So focus like this. This is about how much you can focus, how much you can spend time on things. So that's on you, uh the other part was sorry. Can you repeat the question.

B

Yes, uh the other part was if we can contribute in a group.

D

Okay, so this is this would be a really good option. You can go ahead and talk to your friends and select the project and contribute to the project. It ultimately depends on the number of slots. An organization gets that you get selected, so sometimes an organization can get two slots and there are three people contributing. So the organization cannot do anything.

D

They can only only select a couple of people out of those, so this can happen, but contributing in groups also helps in a way that you can discuss your doubts amongst yourself, as someone who understands first can help out his peers, so you can always contribute in groups, focus more on open source and open source. Wise forming groups working as a community is much better, but for gsoc you can always contribute to the project, but it it can get limited that the organization gets limited slots and then this competitive thing can happen. So yeah.

D

Keep that in mind before we continue.

B

The applications would be individual right.

D

Yeah yeah, the applications could always be individual yeah.

B

uh Then everybody wants to know how do we begin with open source contribution? Every three request: knowledge that is required.

D

How do you begin with open source, organic.

C

D

uh So the best way is first: do the research like find a good project that you are interested in, go ahead and talk to the people talk to people that who have contributed to other projects find a project that interests you like personally I'll suggest like I'll say that there was this company called torchbox.

D

I really wanted to apply to that company and I read about the company and they had an open source project called backtail. So I went ahead and went to the repository. uh So you see right. My interest in contributing to wagtail is because I'm interested in working for this company torchbox, so your interest motive could be different. Let's say you are a big fan of deep learning, so you go ahead and contribute to tensorflow. You are a big fan of flutter. Then you go ahead and decide to contribute to that.

D

So this all depends on your interest and the things you want to learn and for beginners. First get like learn: try to learn the basics of programming, learn gate and github thoroughly like there are multiple available resources. Getting github is like super important. This is something I suggest to everyone that before learning pro like before, even learning programming learn get and get up, because that that's something that would help you a lot throughout your open source journey and once you're through with it, then learn basics of programming go to an organization, follow their contributing guidelines.

D

You'll always find a guideline called contributing how to contribute to this project, and they they'll have good. First issues marked they'll have small bugs you can fix there. There can be small spelling mistakes in the documentation. That could be your first contribution and once you are like, through with the process that, how do I contribute, then you can go ahead and pick up more difficult issues, pick up more difficult uh problems that you can work on for the project. So what I do personally is I go to the issues.

D

I find a good first issue I'll. I think I can solve it. I do my research first that, okay, this is how I solve this issue, and I I personally understand it. Then. I comment on the issue that I am working on this. uh I think this this. This is the solution. This is how I would approach, don't go ahead and ask the mentor that okay, this is the issue I want to work on.

D

Can you tell me how to work on it? This is not the way because they also don't have time to tell you if they had the time they will fix the issue themselves. Okay, so if the issue is open, go ahead, and do your research see how you can solve it then comment on the issue that I'm working on this work on it and open up a request, and this opening apple request committing and everything is again get and get up so getting github knowledge is like really important.

B

Is it required to have contributions in the same area of the applying organization, or contributions in any other field is taken into account?.

D

No, it's not at all necessary contributions to any of the contributions are always good and not at all necessary, like there are organizations that just like, for example, dart dart is an organization that doesn't want you to contribute before gsa.

D

They want you to work on a project that they'll suggest and then submit that project and then, in turn like submit your proposal. That's how dart selects people there's also an organization under incf called sk time. What they did was they expect proposals, and then they take an interview like they take a 45 minute long interview on data science, and then they select people so different organizations, different selection procedures. The best way is go to the organization.

D

You are interested in talk to someone who has contributed before as a gsoc student and take suggestions from them that how can I increase my chance of getting selected? So any type of contributions you have done to open source in the past would count if you have done contributions to the organization, even if those are documentation fixes.

D

They also count towards your proposal.

B

Right, um so a lot of the seniors want to know what to do after g-stock like what are your suggestions that one should follow in the resume and then get shortlisted for technical interviews for the product-based consonants.

D

So this is an interesting question like uh so g-shock increases your chances of getting selected a lot so uh for getting shortlisted. There can be a lot of things you are doing wrong or right so make sure your resume is good. Make sure you have a good portfolio website, uh make sure you reach out to people and for increasing your chances of getting selected in any company is reach out to people.

D

uh This is my habit, my personal habit that weekly, I ping a lot of people on linkedin. I ask for suggestions. I talk to. I talk to recruiters that are there any open positions at your company and stuff like that, so talk to as many people as you can on linkedin and ask them if they, if they can refer you to their, if they can refer, if they can refer you to their company, so gsoc would be that you say thing you can share with them that I was a gsoc student.

D

So they'll immediately know that you are a good coder right. So it's it's just an addition to your resume. It doesn't it doesn't like make it. It isn't a shortcut of getting selected into a good company focus like for make sure that you are not doing gsoc just for adding it to you to your resume. Do zsock for learning new things for developing new things and contributing to a project that you are genuinely interested in.

D

This is like this is a separate. This is this would be a completely separate topic that how do you get shortlisted to different companies? But one thing I would like to share is: there are a lot of gsoc organizations who hire you after you complete g sub there, so you can search for these type of organizations as well. If you are like in your third year or fourth year, you go ahead and search for these organizations who actually go ahead and hire uh people hire gsoc contributors after they complete resolve.

D

One example I gave was torchbox that they also participate in google summer, of course, and then they fall like following the higher uh after google summer of code. There are multiple other companies, like one of my friends, got selected in our command because of our country contributions in a security project in eso, so that's also possible.

B

So we wanted to know like, uh let's start during four years for college, should we like do certainly certification of different skills, or we should focus on internships or projects like which is the best thing to focus on right now.

D

Okay, certifications- and this is a very subjective answer and my personal opinion on this- is that certifications and certifications don't really matter much if you have the skills so focus more on developing skills focus more on building projects. So I I am a personally. I am a big believer in uh project based learning. I don't do courses, I don't I I don't go through tutorials much like I like to watch first few videos and then select a project and then start working on it.

D

So once you get the hang of this project based development like if you want to learn python, build a python project, build a python script if you want to run ruby, run ruby's like build a ruby script. So once you get the hang of this project-based learning, then you will never want to go ahead and go to a tutorial and learn something so don't focus on so like for.

D

If you want to, if there are some very good certifications available, you can, but my personal suggestion is focus on building your skills rather than focusing on certifications.

B

Thank you are you, I guess you know more questions. So what do you say.

A

Thank you for addressing the questions of our participants. I think that's all we had to ask, because I can't see any more questions here now. I would like to invite saksham kumar, who is the.

E

So, first of all, I would like to thank yash for joining us and providing us insights about google summer of code, and I hope the students have got a broad idea about gsoc. uh Also. I would like to thank our respected dean, sir dr rudraman prapati and our faculty advisor professor for giving us this opportunity.

E

I would also like to thank our host for the day. uh Smoothie and snape are beautifully hosting this event and my sincere thanks to all the executive members and event attendees for making this webinar a grand success. We look forward for having many more such events. Thank you very much guys for joining.

E

So I guess we can call it a day.

E

All right guys, thank you so much for joining, and we hope that you got a great insight about in google summer, of course, so we can see many of this election from our university this year.

E

All right, so we can end this meeting right. Thank you very much.

E

Also, if anyone has any doubt, then they can reach out to uh mr yash at his linkedin profile uh directly. You can dm him on linkedin and he would surely.

D

Thank you. Okay,.

E