Elastic is the world's leading software provider for making structured and unstructured data usable in real time for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. Founded in 2012 in Amsterdam by the people behind Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene, Elastic set forth a vision that search can solve a plethora of data problems. The origins of the company start back in 2010, when Shay Banon wrote the first lines of Elasticsearch and open sourced it as a distributed search engine. Since then, the creators of the open source tools Kibana, Logstash, and Beats have joined the Elastic family, rounding out a product portfolio known as the Elastic Stack, which is used by millions of developers around the world. Elastic has headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Mountain View, California. The Elastic family unites more than 700 employees across 35 countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.
- Twitter: Welcome! It is great that you want to join our organization for this year's Google Summer of Code. We are trying to keep the application process short and relevant. In your application please tell us:
- Who you are: Your name and how to contact you.
- Which project idea you want to work on: Which of our ideas is it or describe in detail if it is your own.
- How you will implement it: Provide a detailed work timeline that breaks the project into one week milestones and align it to the GSoC timeline.
- Why you: Link to a pull request you have submitted to the project you want to work on. Here is a starting point for issues you could dive into:
- Elasticsearch
low hanging fruit - Logstash
log hanging fruit - Kibana
low hanging fruit - Beats
good first issue
Elastic is always seeking to diversify its contributors and especially welcomes applications from women from all backgrounds and people of color.
If there are any open questions or you get stuck, don't despair — we are here to help:
- If you want to discuss a specific project idea, use the issues. We will assign it to the right mentor and want to keep this discussion to the point.
- For all other questions or discussions like the application process, your pull request, what to expect from us during the project,... head over to Discuss.