“Summer 2020” is a summer program for university students jointly organized by the Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences and the openEuler community, and hosted by the Nanjing Institute of Software Technology of the Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences. The program aims to encourage university students to actively participate in the development and maintenance of open source software, and promote the vigorous development of excellent domestic open source software communities.
The program started in May, where participating students could independently choose projects of interest, communicate implementation plans with community mentors, and write project proposals. Selected students completed development work according to plan under the guidance of community mentors and contributed their results to the community. After 3 months of development, the program officially concluded.
This program attracted 42 communities, 34 universities, and 388 projects to participate, including not only open source projects supported by international top-tier open source foundations such as Linux, Apache, and CNCF, but also top domestic open source projects like Wechaty.
In this program, the Wechaty community customized development tasks based on different directions such as Puppet and Plugin, arranged senior mentors to communicate plans with applicants, and guided students to complete development according to plan.
Wechaty is an open source conversational AI SDK released in 2016 under the Apache-2.0 license. It features minimal development complexity, multi-language support, and rich components, supporting various instant messaging platforms including WeChat, WhatsApp, Gitter, Lark, and Kuaishou. It has been widely applied in education, retail, community management, and other fields. Developers come from companies such as Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Google, and Microsoft, and it has been starred by nearly 10,000 developers on GitHub.
After 3 months of effort, 151 students finally passed the project completion review. Students’ completion reports and daily development work received unanimous recognition from the community and organizing committee. After comprehensive evaluation from multiple perspectives including project perspective (project completion quality, code readability, and documentation completeness for project sustainability), community perspective (students’ contribution to the community, importance of completed projects to the community, etc.), student perspective (students’ progress and rapid learning ability in participating in activities), and open source perspective (students’ potential and willingness to continue contributing to open source in the future), the final awards for Summer 2020 were determined!
- @univerone (Jiang Shanshan 江姗姗) from the Wechaty community won the Outstanding Student Contribution Award for Summer 2020!
- @kxz18 (Kong Xiangzhe 孔详哲) from the Wechaty community won the Outstanding Student Most Potential Award for Summer 2020!
“Summer 2020” provided an excellent, friendly, and open communication platform for university students. It enabled students to truly engage in the development and maintenance of open source software, get guidance from senior open source software developers, promote the development of open source software in China and the construction of excellent open source software communities, increase the activity of open source projects in China, and align with the world in the open source field.
Appendix: Wechaty Open Source Software Supply Chain Lighting Plan Summer 2020 Recruitment Guide
中文版: 开源软件供应链点亮计划暑期 2020 公布结果：基于 Wechaty 开发的项目斩获突出贡献奖和最具潜力两大奖项！
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