Facebook Open Academy

Facebook Open Academy program promotes the collaboration between universities and open source organizations. Teams of Computer Science students work together in projects mentored by OSS community contributors.

Wikimedia is planning to participate in the 2014 edition.

Timeline
The rough timeline is:


 * December-January: project planning and creation of teams.
 * February 7th - 9th (Friday-Sunday) "Code Sprint" at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park.
 * February - May/June: development.

This program involves different universities from different countries following different school calendars. This is why the dates are more flexible altogether.

Projects
The first step is to confirm the list of projects and mentors.


 * Distributed cron replacement - Coren (talk)/(enwp)
 * Cassandra backend for distributed round-trip test server - Gabriel Wicke, Marc Ordinas i Llopis
 * Flow Right-To-Left language support - and
 * Flow Edit Filter integration - and
 * OpenBadges and Persona support for MediaWiki - and
 * Abstracting the Education Program extension - Andrew Green and Sage Ross