Got some spare time and a knack for PR, community management, Sponsoring or Coding? Awesome!
We could use some helpful hands and can offer a wonderful summer of experience and of course cat gifs ;)
Part of the reason is that [Sven] (http://twitter.com/svenfuchs) will have to step back from working on Rails
Girls Summer of Code a little bit starting July and focussing on [Travis] (http://travis-ci.org)
again. During the first weeks he will still be available about half-time and
[Anika] (http://twitter.com/langziehohr) will continue to be available full-time, sponsored by Travis.
These teams would love to have you:
1. Campaign and Sponsors management
Sponsors need to be paid special attention to until after the program as much
as possible … eventually they’re the ones who allow us to pay so many people!
2. Helpdesk and Team Supervision
The idea is to organize remote support
(answering questions on IRC etc) for when teams get stuck and local coaches
aren’t available.
3. Blog, Newsletter and Press
This team writes up news in order to keep our community in the loop, and tell
the world about how the teams are doing, whats going on and share some nice stories.
4. Website
This team takes care of the website and makes sure it stays up to date with the
progress of RGSoC.
The team is still looking for someone with design skills and others who’d
like to help out.
5. Teams App
The app should be mostly done before July, but might need updating once in a
while.
Sven can still take care of this for the time being, but it would be cool if
someone with solid Rails dev skills could take this over.
This application is meant as a central place to aggregate activity at
Rails Girls Summer of Code, and it now can be used to register your team (we’ve
already added all sponsored teams), add team members and profile information.
Here’s how to use it:
Your own account
Signing in through GitHub will create a user account on our side. If your account
has already been added by one of your team mates then you’ll claim your account
by signing in through GitHub.
Once signed in you can update your profile information. Please tell the
community a little bit about you, maybe tell why you’re participating, what you
hope to get out of this, etc.
Your team’s profile
On the teams list check if
your team has already been added. If you’re already part of this team then you
can update your team’s profile.
If you haven’t been added to your team, yet, then ask one of the members to
sign in and add you. They will need your GitHub handle for that (the GitHub
handle is your user/login name, the one that appears in the URL when you go to
your GitHub account).
Please work with your team to make sure that your team’s profile tells the
community about your project plan, how and where you plan to work, … everything
that might be useful or fun to know :)
If your team has a GitHub organization (you might want one and they’re free
for Open Source) then please add the handle. If your team has a Twitter
account, then please add it, too.
Your team’s sources
Your team can register “sources” from which this application will try to
aggregate updates.
Please add your team log and any other blog that is relevant for your team,
by registering its RSS or Atom feed URLs. Read more about the
team log here …
Please also add all the GitHub repository URLs that you are planning to
work on as sources. Currently this won’t actually do anything, yet, but we
plan to aggregate information from there, too.
It’s getting really warm outside in Berlin. And Rails Girls Summer of Code is getting closer and closer!
Team Number 10
We are super happy to announce that with the support from Front Foot, Readmill, Gnip and with Soundcloud becoming a gold sponsor plus extra donations from our amazing community* … we can now offer
another sponsored team-spot for RGSoC!
And that spot goes to this amazing team:
Jaqcueline Homan (USA) and Angela Ebirim (UK) working on Hackety Hack.
With this we are also welcoming our first remote team on board! Hello you two,
wonderful to have you!
Plus 10 Volunteering Teams
Also, we are thrilled that the following students have registered as volunteering teams!
Aileen Alba & Candy Jimenez
Carolina García & Julia Döring
Hannah Winter
Hélène Martin
María del Carmen Berros García
Melanie Murray & Tina Kumar
Michelle Brideau & Nicky Owen Victoria Martinez & Hester van Wijk
Oana Sipos & Maria Iloaie
Tam Eastley& Susanne Dewein
Prithvi Venkateshmurthy
(listed alphabetically)
This is so awesome! We will do everything that we can to support you with all
our <3.
Hopefully, many more students will follow and we can have a really great
Summer of Code together. Let us know if you want to join as a volunteering
team: contact@rgsoc.org
We are so happy that you are joining RGSoC and we are looking forward to a fantastic time.
May the ☼ be always with you!
We are both very much thrilled and equally humbled about how Rails Girls Summer
of Code over the last few weeks has grown into a huge program that is very
likely to make a real difference.
This community just rocks!
We are proud to say that we have received 80 applications from over 140
students from all over the world.
Among them some are outstandingly well prepared, some come with an amazing
support network from coaches and local communities, some include outright
moving personal stories.
We have reviewed all of these applications and they have been rated by a
committee of 9 members. This was quite some work, but we are very happy to say
that we have finalized this process yesterday. So we can now announce our first
group of participants.
Congratulations for being accepted into Rails Girls Summer of Code go out to
the following teams!
Carla (Australia) and Anja (Germany) to work on: Sinatra and Farm Subsidy
Open Government Data
Cecilia (Argentinia) and Mayn (Norway) to work on: Open Source Job Board
Jen and Joyce (both USA) to work on: Bundler
Laura and Adriana (both Colombia) to work on: Rails (Conductor)
Magdalena (Poland) to work on: impress.js
Maja and Nina (both Slovenia) to work on: Spree
Nicole (Germany) and Laura (USA) to work on: RailsApps and Rubinius
Saskhi and Pallavi (both India) to work on: Diaspora
Wiktoria and Alicja (both Poland) to work on: Species+
(ordered alphabetically, not by ranking)
If you have applied and your team is not on this list - don’t worry. That does
not mean your summer can’t be a Summer of Code!
Here’s what you can do.
About the selection process
We have tried very hard to make the selection process as fair and objective as
possible. We also want to be transparent about this, so here’s how it worked:
Applications were rated by the criteria given on the
students
page. Ratings were given by 9 members of the committee individually and
collected in a simple Rails app. This allowed us to compare ratings based on
various measures
of central tendency (fancy term from statistics for different ways to
calculate averages, means etc.).
Even though ratings were given individually, for each application individual
ratings were pretty close most of the time. In the few cases where they
differed more we’ve had a short discussion, looking out for potential
misunderstandings or missing information, and gave the opportunity to amend
ratings if applicable.
After completing this process the top rated group was already very obvious. For
the remaining few slots we have looked out for applications that added extra
diversity to the list, especially in respect that haven’t been caught by the
rating system well. E.g. we added one application for the fact that it was the
only well rated one for a pure Javascript project, and we have added one team
that could afford coming on board for a reduced stipend easily.
From what we know this process was similar to how many conferences select
speakers: identifying a pre-ranking based on a system that tries to ensure
objectivity as much as possible. Then balancing the end result with regards
to criteria that could not be captured by the system easily.
Sponsors for last-minute seats
The sheer number of fantastic applications that we have received has blown us
away, and we were sad about every single application that didn’t make it in.
We are still actively looking for sponsors so we can hopefully add at least
a few extra last-minute seats.
