(This template is for students applying to the GSoC program with Public Lab.)

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Template

Name:

Affiliation (school/degree)

Location (where you are):

Email:

Phone: (if you prefer not to post it here, please email it to organizers@publiclab.org with a link to your application.)

Project(s) you're working on or want to, i.e. Spectral Workbench or MapKnitter:

Project title -- the title of YOUR proposed project:

Project description

• Abstract/summary (<20 words):
• Describe the need your project fulfills:
• How will your project meet this need:
• Timeline/milestones:
• What broader goal is your project working towards?
• What resources will you need: people, documentation, literature, sample data, hardware if applicable:

Setup

Have you forked the relevant codebases? Installed them in a dev environment such as Cloud9.io? Need help doing so? Please provide a link to each of the above.

Experience

Describe your technical background; what languages you use, what projects you've contributed to before, links to GitHub or other code repositories or samples. Have you read the Contributor Guidelines at https://publiclab.org/wiki/contributing-to-public-lab-software and are you comfortable submitting pull requests?

Teamwork

Describe teams you've worked with before, whether open or closed source, and in what capacity you participated. Cite examples of how you were self-motivated and self-sufficient.

Expertise

Would you describe yourself as especially good at or interested in some aspect of coding or problem solving, or open source science? Provide examples and links. Are you particularly suited to this proposed project?

Interest

Do you have prior interest in or work towards open science or environmental justice goals?

Audience

Whom will your work serve? Lay users, other programmers, non-technical people or nerds? While exploring advanced techniques is great, we especially appreciate proposals which make technologies and techniques more legible and user-friendly to non-technical users.

Context

What motivates you to do the proposed work? Do you also have coursework or degree related reasons for pursuing it? This wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing - if you are for example looking to explore work related to a thesis topic.

Ongoing involvement

Explain how you intend to continue being an active member of your project and/or Public Laboratory AFTER the summer is over.

Commitment

Do you understand this is a serious commitment, equivalent to a full-time paid summer internship or summer job?