Google Summer of Code 2023

The experience I got as a student in 2012 was invaluable for my career in tech ~ more so since I did not formally study CS. It introduced me to so much: a lot of the programming itself, collaborating with fellow developers.

I spent one year preparing for it, and man seeing my proposal accepted was one of the best feelings I have ever experienced (much better than when I graduated, even). A close second is knowing that I actually was helping people with my code (I still keep the emails where people sent me questions about the library API I was developing).

I hope this year's (and future) batches of students get to experience the same (if not more) highs :).

Oh BTW, if someone is bored: I think this library needs some RUST dev help: https://github.com/Holzhaus/rekordcrate/pull/71 In theory, this library would allow open source project to write "Pioneer rekordbox usb keys" Pioneer hardware are used in a lot of clubs around the world and effectively need music files exported by Rekordbox. Would be cool to have 3rd party apps do this.

the primary condition is that you are new to FOSS and are not an active contributor already