Palisadoes Foundation volunteers Tasneem Koushar and Anwer Sayeed discuss their experiences with Google Summer of Code last year and give excellent tips for those planning to participate in 2023. The topics of this video include:

• When to get started for GSOC?
• How to find an organization for you?
• How to start contributing?
• How to make a proposal?
• How to increase your chances of getting selected?
• GSoC goals
• GSoC stipends
• What are the benefits of getting selected?
• Getting ready for GSoC 2023
• Open-source organizations you can start with

Siddhesh is one of our 2022 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students working on our Talawa projects. He started participating earlier this year, and was formally accepted as a GSoC student in May. He has been collaborating with other students and mentors on his various GitHub pull requests.

Welcome Siddhesh!

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Siddhesh Bhupendra Kukade is a 2nd Year IT Student from PVGCOET Pune, India. He has also completed a Diploma degree in IT from Government Polytechnic, Nashik He currently works mainly with Javascript along with its libraries like ReactJS, NodeJS and Flutter Framework.

Apart from work, he likes to watch cartoons, comedy shows, etc. He is a very dedicated person and likes to solve problems in any way possible. He feels very grateful for being a part of the Palisadoes Foundation through the Google Summer of Code 2022 program.

Asmit is one of our 2022 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students working on our Talawa projects. He started participating earlier this year, and was formally accepted as a GSoC student in May. He has been collaborating with other students and mentors on his various GitHub pull requests.

Welcome Asmit!

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Namaste, I am Asmit Kumar Sirohi. A pre-final year undergraduate at Quantum University, Roorkee, India, pursuing Computer Science and Engineering as my major. I am a Web Developer who enjoys developing apps that matter. I’m a core member of the technical club at my institute and maintain the club’s website as well as the institute’s resource management system.

I have been very passionate about open-source since my freshman year and contributed to many open source projects. This interest in open-source brought me to the GSoC. I explored many great open-source organizations and their projects and then I found The Palisadoes Foundation there. The Palisadoes Foundation is one of the most helpful and active organizations I encountered. The procedure of design docs and PR reviews gives insights into professional work. After talking to mentors, I was happy to choose The Palisadoes Foundation for my GSoC journey.

Taslan Graham is a Software Engineer with an interest in Node.js and web development. He currently works for CradleApps, an audio production startup that creates plugins that helps Producers and Sound Engineers create world class instrumentals. Taslan graduated with honors from the University of Technology, Jamaica with a bachelors of science in Computing.

His hobbies include reading, blogging, photography, and watching random philosophy lectures on Youtube.

As a first time GSoC mentor his aim is to help the GSoC participants to make valuable contributions to their repo(s) of interest.

Noman is one of our 2022 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students working on our Talawa projects. He started participating earlier this year, and was formally accepted as a GSoC student in May. He has been collaborating with other students and mentors on his various GitHub pull requests.

Welcome Noman!

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Hello,I am Md Noman Khan from India, I am in my Junior year and pursuing computer science engineering. I am an open source enthusiast and love to solve real life problems with my skills.I am a tech lover and flexible over various tech stacks , I like taking new initiatives and working in a team. My aim is to implement my knowledge in engineering and gain experience.