Student-organization interaction period Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre HSF has been accepted by Google as *CERN-HSF* umbrella organization in the GSoC 2020 program! Most of the project proposals have already been published in the HSF GSoC [website](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/activities/gsoc.html) and therefore students are starting to contact mentors. Thus, we are now in the student-organization interaction period (Feb. 20 – Mar. 16), 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](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS585g6j70Db-QHjpxFcwyFf-PYuRotB-YuJ6fI1V3I93buBGmz3u8O15CEpKEVPyen5OEvmhBtHeMo/pub) is a template that you can use to answer to prospective candidates for your project. - Sign up if not done yet at: \* The [GSoC website](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) (invitations have been sent, please contact us if you have not received it). \* The [CERN-HSF Google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hep-software-foundation-google-summer-of-code) Please note that signing up does not guarantee a student!

Further steps Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre Discussion about the following phases of GSoC, detailed [here]( https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRtsOCLp01dwGJnEdWlVo_Lxl9UwLAZ7LWAwVWA2xWrwPDUtOprlRsLmeIgi0sYnCbJ4mUkB3uc6jhK/pub). These phases include: - Student application period (March 16 - March 31) - Community bonding period (April 27 – May 18) - Work period (May 18 – Aug 17)

Open question session Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre Time for the mentors to ask any question about GSoC at CERN-HSF.