Introduction about the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program

GSoC image, courtesy of google

According to Google itself

Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a 3 month programming project with an open source organization during their break from university.

Basically, it is a great initiative by Google which helps students across various institutions across the world to learn and enter the field of open-source development with various open-source organizations.

I planned to participate in this program and searched through the net for necessary how-tos. Some crucial points to I realized are

In the end I would like to emphasise that do not think of it as something of an “exam to crack” or “scoring high” in this. This is purely a learning experience, if you show your dedication in your work you submit, your enthusiasm, your commitment to this then that should be enough, showing your competitive nature sometimes bugs people off
( this is my thinking only, and people are free to interpret this according to their ideology and even can ignore this completely ).
I will post more blogs under this topic explaining more points under this section. Currently, I have planned to post another blog explaining in detail:

Some other small points will also be there.

My journey has started

I planned to participate in this program and searched throught the net for necessary how-tos.

And I also got selected to work in this summer and hence my journey has started.