In addition to writing code, accepted GSoC contributors send weekly updates to the OBF community on their project’s progress. These updates allow us to keep aware of how GSoC contributors are doing, give them a forum to ask any questions, and promote overall community bonding.

At the beginning of the summer, we ask that you set up a blog for the GSoC project (or a category/tag on your existing blog) which you will use to summarize your progress every week, as well as longer posts about your work if you’d like. (See these examples from 2018 and 2019)

Then, at the start of each week: Post an update on your blog: What did you do last week? What do you plan to do this week? Do you have any unanswered questions, any unsolved problems from the last week, interesting observations or anything else you’d like to mention? Email the URL and text of the post (or a short summary) to the host project’s mailing list (your mentors will confirm which one to use).

You will be writing under your own name, but with a clear association with your mentors, the OBF and its projects, so please take this seriously and be professional. Remember that your blog will be one of the first things found by anyone interested in the project you’re working on, and can be a valuable resource to them — as well as a significant part of your online presence.