This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects.

Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page

Get in touch

We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here:

Contribution guidelines

Our Contributing to Public Lab Software page has our preferred guidelines for submitting changes. Please read it over!

We also love it when students show that they can work well with us by trying a first-timers-only issue, and even submitting a pull request. This gives us confidence that you've read our contribution guidelines and would be ready to jump into a project. To get started, see our welcome page:

Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all

How to post a proposal

(for students)

Please first leave a comment on the post below, and tell us what you're interested in and a bit about your experience. It's also great to hear if you've forked one of our codebases) and installed it on your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started!

Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas:

Brainstorm for our ideas list here

Questions

Ideas

The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team.

Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with!

(ideas coming soon)