Google Summer of Code 2017: Final Report

GSoC'17_Work_Summary.md

Hello, everyone!

I'm Hitesh Garg, a Google Summer of Code 2017 Student Developer. This summer, I worked with Open States This is a summary report on what I managed to do in the past three months.

My Deliveries were:

• Task 1: Help Organization in Pupa-ization of Existing Scrapers and Fixing Bugs & Updating Scrapers For Different States
• Task 2: Build New Open Civic Data Admin Tools
  • User Feedback Tool
  • Merge Tool
  • Name Resolution Tool
  • Retirement Tool
  • Data Quality Issues & Exceptions Tool
  • Common Status Page for all states containing current status of different parameters
  • Sub pages for the status of specific sessions/states etc.
  • Advanced filters to sort data accordingly
  • Fast search queries using Django-ORM

I have met all the goals which were originally outlined in the project plan.

List of PR's

Here are links to my PR's which got merged during the coding period.

• Task 1: Link
• Task 2: Link

Blog Posts

1. Google Summer of Code - Improved Data Tools
2. Progress on the OCD Data Quality Tools
3. Google Summer of Code - Data Quality Tools Update
4. Google Summer of Code 2017 Final Update

While I was working on my project I learned a lot of things like —  writing quality code and effectively testing the code. More importantly, I learned the importance of Continuous Integration and Unit Testing. So, GSoC really helped me in growing myself on my road to becoming a super cool programmer.

I’m extremely happy that I selected the Open States as my GSoC organization. I would like to thank my mentors Miles sir and James sir for providing me the guidance in successfully completing the GSoC project.