Google Summer of Code/2014

Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentoring organization for GSoC 2014.

Google Summer of Code 2014 was announced in Tuesday, October 08, 2013 and is one of the mentorship programs we are planning to organize.

We advise all candidates eligible to FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 8 to apply to both programs.

Timeline
For more detail, check the official timeline.


 * 14 February: Mentoring organization application deadline
 * 24 February: List of accepted mentoring organizations published
 * 10 March: Student application period opens
 * 11 March: Wikimedia IRC meeting (logs)
 * 21 March: Student application deadline
 * 7 April: Mentoring organizations should have requested slots via their profile in Melange by this point
 * 9 April: Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations
 * 21 April: Accepted student proposals announced
 * 18 August: Firm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google
 * 22 August: Final evaluation deadline
 * 25 & 26 October: Mentor Summit at Google

Candidates
Students working on their projects should add themselves to the table below, linking to their user page, their project page in mediawiki.org, and the related bug report(s).

In addition to this, there are four steps that all proposals must complete in order to be evaluated: Add the status of each point to the Updates column, linking to your wikitech-l email, Melange project idea (it doesn't matter if the access is protected), and the bug reports or patches related to your microtasks.
 * send your proposal to wikitech-l and/or other appropriate mailing lists
 * submit your proposal in Google Melange, linking to the version in mediawiki.org, which is the one we will use in our evaluation
 * get two mentors to "Wish to mentor" your proposal in Google Melange (instructions for mentors)
 * complete one or more microtasks assigned by your mentors

See also:


 * application template
 * selection process
 * lessons learned
 * Category:Summer of Code 2014 proposals