Potential Mentors

If you are an active participant in the Raxa EMR community and would like to be a mentor for 2015, please edit this page and add your name to the list below. 

Project Ideas

GSoC 2015 Ideas Page

Thinking about applying?

We're happy you're interested in working on the Raxa EMR during Summer of Code 2015. Here are some tips that we've prepared to help your application process be easier and more successful. These are all things you can do today to start getting involved.

Tips for Being a Competitive Applicant for GSoC 2015 at Raxa

Application Template

  1. Who are you? What are you studying?
  2. Why are you the right person for this task?
  3. What is your work style? How will you personally provide structure, discipline, and accountability in your work?
  4. Do you have any other commitments we should know about?
  5. Do you have experience with any of the following technologies: Sencha/ExtJS4, Java, MySQL, HTML5, Javascript? (Experience with any/all is not a requirement.)
  6. List any other web or mobile experience.
  7. List any previous experience working with open source projects. (This experience is not a requirement.)
  8. Please provide links to projects created by you and/or source code examples.
  9. What is your preferred method of contact and how should we reach you with it? (phone, email, Skype, IRC, IM, etc.)
  10. Project Outline
  11. Project Features
  12. Project Timeline
  13. Additional resources such as links to demo code, mockup sketches, etc

Application Process

The window for students to submit their applications is 16-27th March 2015. Applications are made via the Google Summer of Code web site, not directly to Raxa. 

Please submit your proposal as early as possible as this will allow potential mentors the maximum time to review it and ask you questions to help us decide which proposals to choose. If you have any difficulty in applying, please email chahal.arora@raxa.org

Google will allocate Raxa a given number of student places and we must choose the successful applicants from everyone that submits proposals to Raxa. Once you have submitted your application, the potential mentors will review the applications and rank them to match projects to available student places. This is all done from the Google Summer of Code Web Site as described here. We may want to contact you to ask you to clarify an aspect of your application, so please include contact details, especially email!

Expectations

What we expect of students:

What students should expect from the Raxa EMR during the summer:

What we expect of mentors:

Program Timeline

March 2 - March 16:
Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.
March 16:
Student application period opens.
March 27:
Student application deadline.
Interim Period:
Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant.
April 24:
  1. All mentors must be signed up and all student proposals matched with a mentor - 07:00 UTC
  2. Student acceptance choice deadline.
  3. IRC meeting to resolve any outstanding duplicate accepted students - 19:00 UTC #gsoc (organizations must send a delegate to represent them in this meeting regardless of if they are in a duplicate situation before the meeting.)
  
April 27:
Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2014 site.
Community Bonding Period:
Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.
May 25:
  1. Students begin coding for their Google Summer of Code projects;
  2. Google begins issuing initial student payments provided tax forms are on file and students are in good standing with their communities.
Work Period:
Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects.
June 26:
Mentors and students can begin submitting mid-term evaluations.
July 3:
  1. Mid-term evaluations deadline;
  2. Google begins issuing mid-term student payments provided passing student survey is on file.
Work Period:
Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects.
August 17:
Suggested 'pencils down' date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc.
August 21:
Firm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google.
August 28:
19:00 UTC
  1. Final evaluation deadline
  2. Google begins issuing student and mentoring organization payments provided forms and evaluations are on file.
August 28:
19:30 UTC
Students can begin submitting required code samples to Google
August 31:
Final results of Google Summer of Code 2014 announced


Next Steps for Accepted Students

After accepted students are announced, here's what should happen:

  1. Contact your mentor immediately. Make a plan to communicate with them regularly - at minimum, once each week. Determine the best way to communicate (e-mail, IRC, IM, Skype, telephone, etc.).
  2. Read Getting Started Guide, and ask others in the community if you have questions. If you ask questions the smart way, you'll get better responses.
  3. Get a development environment installed and running.
  4. Review our Conventions page.
  5. Set up a blog for GSoC. Send the URL to us. If you don't have a blog yet, you can create one for free at WordPress.com or Blogger.com.
  6. Browse the current Raxa EMR GitHub code specific to your project.
  7. Browse other GSoC organizations and the pages they have for their students. We want to be the best!
  8. Review the requirements for your project together with your mentor.
  9. Submit a formal written proposal to your mentor.
  10. Agree on final requirements with your mentor.
  11. Develop a project schedule (timeline) with your mentor.

Helpful Community Resources

Project Presentations

Questions?