GSOC Application

Our GSoC 2024 project ideas are listed at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/wiki/GSOC-2024-ideas-list. Interested? Check our Contribution Guideline and prepare a first improvement. In parallel, you can think of the project you would like to work on.

For a successful application to JabRef, provide below information and make sure to make yourself familiar with the Contribution Guideline.

Personal Information

• Name, background, country of residence
• Previous experiences
  • What relevant experience have you got, including university, work, and hobby activities?
  • Previous programming language and software engineering experience?

GSoC information

• Did you participate in GSOC or any other project before?
  • If yes, which one?
• Timeline/Schedule (some milestones)
• Your proposal should include some milestones
• Do you know about bibtex/biblatex? (Formulate in your own words)
• Have you used JabRef before?
• Do you have any other commitments during GSOC? Exams, jobs, vacation, ...
• Life after the project. How to you intend to continue contributing to open source in general and JabRef in particular

What helps, are initial sketches of the first steps or the solution. For instance, if you are interested in the AI-assisted summary of PDFs, you could try to use an existing service, state example questions and expected answers, etc. Think of how to test the thing, how the documentation could be like, ...