GSoC LibreHealth 2023

Prepping for GSoC The final week of community bonding period ends and official coding begins. I was able to describe myself, set up my blog, and set up payment mechanisms, among other things. Google's instructions were spot on. I still need to set up my tax forms, for which I contacted Google. They told the tax forms will be available by June 5th, and I would have to file them by July 1st (for anyone who is interested). Exploring the Open Source Community I also read through the blogs of my fellow GSoC colleagues at LibreHealth. It was great reading about their journey and how they ended up being chosen for GSoC. They are all really capable. They explained about their exciting projects to which they are contributing towards. I was able to understand what an open source community is and get an essence of how people come together to build great products. Unfortunately,  I have not yet had the opportunity to interact with my mentors about my GSoC project proposal. I heard on other pro

GSoC Acceptance I was amazed to know that I got accepted into Google Summer of Code 2023. This is my first time applying and getting into GSoC. I remember the time when I sat at the library for hours, working on the preliminary tasks, figuring out solutions, and writing an extensive proposal. Reiterating through the solution and proposal back and forth, I watched lots of YouTube videos and read blogs providing tips to draft a good proposal. All the efforts paid off when I received the email of acceptance. The Org & Project I drafted a proposal to the LibreHealth Organization. LibreHealth is collaborative community for free & open source software projects in Health IT, and is a member project of Software Freedom Conservancy. It is amazing to just think about how contributors from all over the world come together and build things that impact the world positively. This idea is what brought me into open source. Before jumping into the project details, here are a few things about m