For the first time, Babel is participating in Summer of Code! Although we forgot to make an announcement post earlier, here's our progress update 😊
What is it?
Google Summer of Code
GSoC is an international annual program which pairs open source projects and university students! We work with the students on a project and Google pays them a stipend.
Peeyush Kushwaha (India)
Karl Cheng (Australia)
- Github: @Qantas94Heavy, Twitter: @qantas94heavy
We're happy to be working with both Peeyush and Karl!
Peeyush has already made a bunch of PRs with improving documentation and bug fixes. In addition, he's been focusing on the much desired decorators transform. We'll be updating this issue with more progress.
Karl has similarly made many contributions already, and is now focusing on the private properties transform (now part of the combined class properties proposal). We'll be updating this issue with more progress.
To track their work on these transforms and the progress of other specs/proposals, be sure to check out the Babel TC39 Proposal Status Tracker.
It's been really amazing working with them the past 2 months! We've really enjoyed teaching, working, and learning with them on the project. Partnering with TC39 in making these Babel plugins a reality has also been helpful for everyone.
Rails Girls Summer of Code
RGSoC is a similar program to GSOC: annual, global, pays a stipend, brings projects and newcomers together, with a focus on bringing diversity into Open Source.
Kara de la Marck (London)
- Github: @MarckK, Twitter: @KaraMarck