[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Trip Report during visit to GSOC Summit

[Samson Goddy]

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 8:43 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org wrote:

> Thanks.  Text of document inserted below, for our mailing list
> archives, as we do lose access to Google Documents later if accounts
> are compromised.
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> Journey To GSOC events, USA
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> I never expected that this would be one of the turning points in the life.
> My journey to Google gave me opportunity to learn and explore new things in
> the current world.
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> I was given the chance to represent Sugar Labs at Google Summer of Code
> Meetup in Google Office, San Francisco, California, USA. This was really an
> amazing experience meeting prodigious people from different organisations
> and other communities especially the Google Open Source Team all over the
> globe.
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> L to R: Joshua Simmons(Google), Jaskirat Singh
>           me and Cat Allman (Google)
> (me) & Stephanie Taylor (Google OSPM)
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> The major importance of this meetup was to connect with background
> Contributors i.e. students with the real time organisations and their
> missions. This meetup had various people including Google Code In and
> Google Summer of code students, mentors and organization administrators.
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> I connected with many people especially students in order to explain the
> functionality and product service of Sugar Labs. I had a very nice time
> spending hours with Mifos, Liquid Galaxy, Catrobat, and other organisation
> org admins: talking about collaboration and networking.
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> GSOC Meetup pic at Google San Francisco
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> Many students at this meetup were quite interested to know about the Sugar
> and make their contribution in the next GSOC that is GSOC’2019. I tried
> partnering with Liquid Galaxy here in order to introduce Turtle Blocks and
> Music Blocks in their laptops which they recently launched in order to
> expand within educational institutions. These laptops were similar to the
> Chromebooks.
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> The best time I had here was when I was demonstrating about the
> productivity of Sugar Labs especially Turtle Blocks and they were looking
> deeply into its codebase.
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> Then I moved to Sunnyvale for attending the GSOC Mentor Summit. The blood
> ran into my spine when the Stephanie Taylor ( GSOC Open Source Team member
> ) introduced about me at Summit.
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> The GSOC mentor Summit was a 3 day “unconference”. The people from
> different participating organisations proposed and held various session
> that included about Open Source, Organisation, projects, and other
> miscellaneous topics.
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>       Opening Ceremony of GSOC Summit
>                    Organising sessions
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> During the starting ceremony the Google Team instructed and explained us
> about importance of this summit.
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> It was indeed pleasure to meet Devin Ulibarri (SL Org Admin in GSOC);
> discussing about the past histories of Sugar Labs and new plans for it. I
> discussed my idea of organising the Sugar Labs Summit once in the year. So
> maybe this gonna be covered in my next upcoming doc. Devin explained me
> about the Music and Music Blocks project going  in the Japan went he had
> been there. We also discussed about new User interface features for the
> Music Blocks and Turtle Blocks like creating a “New Tab window”, “Theme
> Changer”, etc.
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> Pic with Devin Ulibarri ( Sugar Labs )
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> I along with Devin attended many session, but the one I liked most was
> Google Season of Docs (GSOD). This session was lead by Sarah Maddox, a tech
> writer at Google who talked about of bringing more tech writers  into Open
> Source projects.
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> “GSoD is similar to Google Summer of Code but focuses on docs and
> technical writers, rather than on code and students. The target
> participants are experienced tech writers who can work with us on our docs.
> The writing part of GSoD will run for 3 months, similar to GSoC. Another
> difference is that the technical writers will not be earning stipends, they
> will be doing this to learn more about open source code and working on
> developer focused docs with code and building their resume.”
>
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> So this was really interesting topic to know  and understand about it. I
> really want to see this that how this will impact on Open Source
> organisations. This deck has more details about this program
> https://goo.gl/3Bpris
> It was really good when Devin introduced the Music Blocks project that was
> done by Riya Lohiya in GSOC’18 under the SL org. Although his talk was
> restricted to 3 mins, Devin was able to express beautifully within that
> time perfectly.
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>  ( While Devin was explaining about the Riya Lohia’s project ( an intern
> in Sugar labs under GSOC’18 ) )
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> I also organised a session and talked about Open Source Social Networking
> platform. Discussed this with Google Open Source Team too and they were
> really glad and wanted to see that how it come up.
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> Having lunch with Karen Sandler from Software Freedom Conservancy
> including other member project member was really fun. We discussed
> supporting the member projects, some new offers and projects that needs to
> be included, etc. Many people put up there queries with functionality of
> SFC. And at last we framed up a video with all other member project people
> in the Google campus itself. ( Sorry that is missing here )
>
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> At the Summit I talked to Michael Downey and Alex about Sugar Labs
> outreaching to various schools and other educational institutions . We also
> had a Quora of room in which there was huge discussion about “What is a
> good way to keep potential contributors even after GSOC?” and yes, the
> outcome and the conclusion from this topic was about “money” that can keep
> contributors engage with organisations.
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> Swag area was opened everytime and I used to love collecting various Open
> Source swags stuffs within Google. It was really an awesome and never
> expected experience at Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. Hope I get this
> Opportunity again in the near future.
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> Chocolates Table having voluptuous Chocolates
> Stickers from all the communities
> from all over the world
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> While I was in the San Francisco I also got a chance to meet Sameer Verma
> ( SLOB member ) and he took me on a drive which got converted into good
> discussions about community. We gathered to talk about various things and
> background of OLPC and Sugar Labs. He also gave me the tour of San
> Francisco State University. I had a very nice time with him though we were
> together only for a short span of time.
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> Pic with Mr. Sameer Verma
>                 Pic with Caryl and her Husband ( Ed )
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> By God’s Grace I also got a chance to flew to Burbank and meet Caryl ( one
> of the Sugar Labs active member ). Staying with her and discussing about
> ongoing and upcoming projects in the educational stem in the Sugar Labs. We
> fixed some XO laptops too ( Upgradation ) and I cannot forget the gift by
> her that is a “XO” Laptop.
> I also explored some nearby places with various folks and this time was
> really an unexpected time.I wish I be good enough to grab this opportunity.
>
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> So from my this experience I learnt a lot about networking and
> collaborating with various people across the planet and gaining as much
> more knowledge I can. This journey has been one of the extreme
> pulchritudinous for me. I wish i could be a part of it again.
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