Informative meeting for mentors of CERN-HSF GSoC 2018

Friday 16 Feb 2018, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

4/S-030 (CERN)

16:00 → 16:20 Student-organization interaction period

CERN-HSF has been accepted by Google in the GSoC 2018 program! Most of the project proposals have already been published in the CERN-HSF website and therefore students are starting to contact mentors.

Thus, we are now in the student-organization interaction period (Feb. 12 – Mar. 12), when mentors are supposed to:

• Evaluate their students by means of coding exercises. The objective is to verify that the student has the required skills for the proposed work and to find out which student/s are strong candidates for the project. See attachment for an exercise example.

• Be responsive when students contact them. This is a template that you can use to answer to prospective candidates for your project.

• Sign up at:
  * The GSoC website (invitations have been sent, please contact us if you have not received it).
  * The CERN-HSF Google group
  Please note that signing up does not guarantee a student!

CERN_GSoC17_BigDataPhysics.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Further steps

Discussion about the following phases of GSoC, detailed here. These phases include:

• Student application period (March 12 - March 27)

• Community bonding period (April 23 – May 14)

• Coding period (May 14 – Aug 14)

16:40 → 17:00 Open question session

Time for the mentors to ask any question about GSoC at CERN-HSF.