# Google Summer of Code - Idea List

The purpose of this idea list is to help contributors answer the question:
> What are ideas of projects I can work on in OpenDBM <> Google Summer of Code? 

## Brief Overview
Choosing a project is a personal choice.  You should choose something you want to work on, and you would know that best! Here's a few questions you can ask yourself to help figure that out: 

- What software do you already use? 
- What would you like to leran?
- Who do you like working with? 
- How do you want to chane the world?
- How do you like to communicate? 


There are three primary project areas to consider for OpenDBM:
1. Docker
2. Pypi library
3. RESTful Api 


The community can benefit from a wide range of contribution to each project area, beyond the cardinal categories of feature enhancements, bug fixing, and optimization.  Because OpenDBM is includes a community of open scientists, jupyter notebooks, tutorials, and documentations are heavily important at our early stages of evangelizing, educating engineered.

## Ideas List 



## Mentors
OpenDBM <> GSoC Admin team will come from the AiCure Engineering and Clinical Data Science Team. 

This may include but is not limited too
- [Aaron Masino,PhD](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-masino-38989415/)
- [Andre Daniel Paredes,PhD](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-daniel-paredes/)
- [Rich Christie,MD,PhD](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richchristie/)
- [Sarah Kark,PhD](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahkark/)
- [Stephanie Caamano](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scaamano/)
- [Jacob Epifano](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrepifano/)


Mentors and org admins can be reached in the public opendbm@aicure.com listserve. This includes any questions in both the application process or general questions about the project. If conversations advance we'll pull you into a private email This lets. *If selected we will add you to our private channel on the OpenDBM Community Home on the Discourse Platform*

Interested in volunteering with OpenDBM? 
We'd love to have you. Please consider the following: 

- The easiest way to become a member is to be part of our discourse community and fill out our [OpenDBM Community Survey](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKUCdYdK9UTd569IuF3O8Q2A9fXuMJ5z9wXbX4r5yzcwfphQ/viewform?fbzx=-1747756377554914236&pli=1) and let us know you are interested in mentoring
- Mentors you are expected to read and closely abide by [GSoC Mentor Guide](https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/upstream-integration)* 
- We expect around a 0-10 hr/week commitment
- We ideally would like more than two mentors per project, so cooperation is key.
- The most successfuly mentors are those who have subject matter expertise experience or are community members of the open source project. 
- Mentors do have to do multiple evaluations on each GSoC Contributor, two mid-terms and one at the end. 
- This is 100% volunteer role for people who are passionate about helping and giving back.