Repository containing GSoC guidelines, history and ideas lists.
Since its birth, under the umbrella of The Honeynet Project, IntelOwl has been participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC)!
Those projects has been successful a lot! They did not only bring IntelOwl to the next level but did open several careers opportunities to the contributors.
Project Summaries:
- 2020: (Mentor: Matteo Lodi)
- 2021: (New mentor: Eshaan Bansal)
- 2022: (New mentors: Shubham Pandey, Simone Berni, Daniele Rosetti)
- 2023: (New mentors: Federico Foschini and Aditya Narayan Sinha)
- Shivam Purohit: Authentication and Maintenance of IntelOwl (Interrupted midterm)
- Abheek Tripathy: Frontend Improvements for Buffalogs and Intelowl
- 2024:
- 2025: (New mentor: Federico Gibertoni)
- 2026:
For year 2023 and 2024 you can find the list of the project ideas in this repo. For all lists of the project ideas of every year, please refer to the official Honeynet site.
If you are interested in being the next GSoC developer for IntelOwl, join the Honeynet Slack chat for more info.
This is also the place where the majority of the development discussion happens, so feel free to join, have a look and ask questions about the project.
Please remember to read and follow the IntelOwl contributing guidelines rules before doing any kind of contribution.
First of all, and if you have not done that yet, read the contributor guide which will allow you to understand all this process and how the program works overall. Refer to its left side menu to quick access sections that may interest you the most, although we recommend you to read everything.
This is a required step unless you have dived in into the existing codebase and understood everything perfectly (very hard) and the idea you prefer is already listed in the Honeynet site.
If your idea is not listed, please discuss it with the mentors in our official channels. We're always open to new ideas and won't hesitate on choosing them if you demonstrate to be a good candidate!
- You're committing to a project and we ask you to publicly publish your weekly progress on it in Github in the official repositories of the project (We'll invite you in the organization. Create branches there.).
- We will ask you to give feedback on our mentorship and management continuously. Communication is key to the success of the project.
- You wholeheartedly agree with the code of conduct.
- You must tell us if there's any proposed idea that you don't think would fit the timeline or could be boring (yes, we're asking for feedback).
We ask you to follow Google's guide to Writing a Proposal and to leverage our template.
Once you have a draft proposal please share it with us in a Google Doc via Slack to all the mentors at the same time. Do not contact just a single mentor, we won't consider your request. In this way we don't have to download anything and we can all comment it and request clarifications in a more structured way. This is a mandatory step to be accepted to the program.
You can also ask for a review anytime to the community or mentor candidates before the contributor application deadline. It's much easier if you get feedback early than to wait for the last moment.
Since v6.8.0 important changes have been applied to the management of the project which is fully in Certego hands now. This will impact the future (starting from 2027 on) possible participation in the Google Summer of Code which won't be managed by the author (Matteo Lodi) directly anymore. If you are still interested to participate to the program, please look also at other similar projects to contribute, like GreedyBear. For more information please check the discussion here