Congratulations to our CNCF Google Summer of Code 2023 Participants! 🎉

[nate-double-u]

Hello everyone,

We are excited to announce that the CNCF has had 14 projects selected for the Google Summer of Code 2023 program! 🚀

We want to congratulate all the fantastic contributors and dedicated mentors who will be working together on various projects throughout the summer. This is an excellent opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute to the CNCF ecosystem. We look forward to seeing the progress and accomplishments of each project over the coming months.

Here are the selected projects, contributors, and assigned mentors for GSoC 2023:

Project Title	Contributor	Assigned Mentor(s)
Support OpenMetrics _created timestamp in Prometheus	Arthur Sens	Max Amin (@macxamin), Bartek Plotka (@bwplotka), Daniel Hrabovcak (@TheSpiritXIII)
Add Support for SQL Database Storage in CurveBS	Bokai Jia	Xiaocui Li (@ilixiaocui)
Enhancements for Dockerfiles	Darshan Kumar	Natalie Arellano (@natalieparellano)
Dataplane migration for Apache Kafka communications: Leveraging Java19’s Project Loom.	Debasish Biswas	Ali Ok (@aliok), Christoph Stäbler (@creydr), Pierangelo Di Pilato (@pierDipi), Matthias Wessendorf (@matzew)
Kubebuilder phase 2 plugin	Eileen Yu	Rashmi Gottipati (@rashmigottipati), Camila Macedo (@camilamacedo86), Bryce Palmer (@everettraven)
Jaeger: Implement ClickHouse support	Ha Anh Vu	Yuri Shkuro (@yurishkuro)
Conmon-rs support for podman	mgjm	Peter Hunt (@haircommander), Matt Heon (@mheon)
Streamlined OpenFeature Enhancement Proposal Process	none_24	Michael Beemer (@beeme1mr), David Hirsch (@DavidPHirsch)
Timeframe for Metrics	Rakshit Gondwal	Thomas Schuetz (@thschue), Florian Bacher (@bacherfl)
Falco: Web IDE for Security Rules with WebAssembly	Rohith Raju	Jason Dellaluce (@jasondellaluce)
Kubectl plugin for Armada	Shivang Shandilya	Kevin Hannon (@kannon92), Geoff Wilson (@suprjinx)
Prototyping Support for Content Addressable Systems like IPFS in TUF	Shubham Nazare	Aditya Sirish A Yelgundhalli (@adityasaky), John Ericson (@Ericson2314)
IDE Plugins for editing vela applications	Swastik Gour	Da Yin (@Somefive)
GitHub Actions for KubeArmor	zhy76	Barun Acharya (@daemon1024), Ankur Kothiwal (@Ankurk99), Anurag Kumar(@kranurag7)

We encourage the CNCF community to welcome and support these contributors, especially during the first weeks. Let's help them feel excited and invested in our community early on.

Once again, congratulations to all participants, and let's make this summer a great experience for everyone involved!

[AmanSarraf]

Congratulations everyone 👏

[satyampsoni]

congratulations everyone!

[haanhvu]

Thank you @nate-double-u @aliok (and anyone else in the admin team) for your support. The application process went smooth thanks to your clear instructions and prompt responses!

[ilixiaocui]

Hello @nate-double-u , I received an email from Google and I want to confirm whether the Org Admins here refers to CNCF.

[aliok]

hey @ilixiaocui Yes, it is CNCF

[ilixiaocui]

Thanks for the reply!

[mohdfarhannawaz]

Congratulations Everyone on this fantastic opportunity 🥳

QUESTION :
As a freshman who is interested in Cloud Native technologies and stuff and wants to contribute to open-source, I was curious how could a beginner like me could contribute to these fantastic projects and have a positive impact. If anyone can guide me toward how I can contribute as a beginner, the tech stacks that I should learn in order to be able to contribute, and the communities and projects that would be eager/happy to have me as a contributor?

My motivation behind this is to get started into these interesting technologies, contribute as much as I can and implement my learning by doing along the journey, get hands-on the real-world projects, grow in the community and gain real-world experience and interact with link-minded folks and give back to the community by helping others.
My Skillset = ( C/C++, OOPS, beginner-level Fronted development HTML, CSS, JS )

Thanks for your time and efforts in reading this : )

[satyampsoni]

Good Question!
If you want to begin with contributing I would suggest you to find the projects around your skillset understand how Git and GitHub works. Learn about the important terminologies like commits, issues, pull requests, discussions, code of conduct and all and try contributing in those projects and in parallel start learning about cloud. Start with what is cloud computing you will find an overview of it on YouTube by David J Malan. Learn about what cloud native is and it's objectives learn the tools and technologies related to it and try to find projects into this domain that interests you and look for some doc contribution and try to set up the project locally and learn how the project works and if you find any issues setting in up ask your questions in the community channels. If you find the solution that good if don't look for the things that was not available there that made you trouble setting up that project and raise an issue about it and solve that issue . Most of the project is very hard to set up. Make the process easy. Keep learning about it keep contributing around it. Hope this helps.

[aliok]

hey @mohdfarhannawaz

In addition to @satyampsoni 's suggestions, we have a great guide that can answer all of your questions: https://contribute.cncf.io/contributors/getting-started/

[mohdfarhannawaz]

Thanks, @satyampsoni and @aliok for your suggestions and time. I would definitely check out the guide and follow the advice.
Thank you very much : )