Hi everyone!

 

As every year, Google runs their Summer of Code program, where contributors get the opportunity to become part of Open Source communities. The SPDX Project has participated in the program in a number of years in the past. The way it works is that we publish project ideas and, if selected, newcomers to open source express their interest in them. The ones finally selected will spend their summer writing code under the guidance of mentors from our project. In order for contributors to join our community and help us, we have to publish a set of ideas where help is needed!

 

Therefore, this is a plea for ideas – and more importantly, mentors who can guide the new contributors and help them accomplish their projects!

 

Firstly, we are looking for project ideas! Either small or large, either incremental improvements to existing open source code or new pieces of software; everything is welcome!

Please read the basics on https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list.html and then write a couple of lines on your great idea.

 

I’ve (hastily) created a special repo for all this: https://github.com/spdx/GSoC

Feel free to create PRs with your ideas!

 

Perhaps even more important than ideas, we are also looking for mentors! Please get in contact via the repo if you are willing to help new members become active participants to SPDX this summer. Each project should have at least two mentors (a primary and a secondary one) who will guide the contributors in their journey.

 

Feel free to open an issue in the repo if you want to discuss in more detail any of the above.

Looking forward to lots of participation!

 

-- zvr

 

PS. I’ve already added a project idea: help on the spec generation from our model files.

Off the top of my head I can think of other ideas like:

• Outreach: help with the website
• Legal: help with license submission tools, help with bulk import from other license lists
• Tech: help with SPDXv3 implementation in Java, Go, etc.

But all these need mentors, otherwise they cannot be realistically proposed.

 

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Hey Jilayne,

I would be happy to co-mentor this project on spdx-online-tools. Apart from this idea, we can include many other open issues especially around testing improvements which can be taken up as part of the project to make it a complete 12 week project.

I missed mentoring last year as I was fully occupied with work. I have mentored couple of projects on the online tools couple of years back.

I'll update the GSoC ideas repo and include other features/tests to be part of the project.

Let me know if that works.

 

Thanks,

Rohit Lodha