Google Summer of Code/2013

PRE-PLANNING - We haven't yet been accepted as a mentoring organization for GSoC 2013.

Google Summer of Code is one of the mentorship programs we are planning to organize in 2013. Let's start collecting ideas and recruiting participants. If you want to participate, How to become a MediaWiki hacker is a good place to start learning your skills and becoming a better candidate.

Our plans need to take into consideration the lessons learned in 2012.

Timeline

 * March 29, 19:00 UTC: Mentoring organization application deadline.
 * April 8, 19:00 UTC: List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2013 site.
 * May 3, 19:00 UTC: Student application deadline.
 * May 6: Mentoring organizations should have requested slots via their profile in Melange by this point.
 * May 8: Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations
 * May 24: All mentors must be signed up and all student proposals matched with a mentor - 07:00 UTC
 * Student acceptance choice deadline.
 * IRC meeting to resolve any outstanding duplicate accepted students - 19:00 UTC #gsoc (organizations must send a delegate to represent them in this meeting regardless of if they are in a duplicate situation before the meeting.)


 * May 27, 19:00 UTC: Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2013 site.
 * June 17: Students begin coding for their Google Summer of Code projects.
 * September 23, 19:00 UTC: Firm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google.
 * October 19 & 20: Mentor Summit at Google.

More dates & details at official timeline.

Students
Introduce yourself and your interests in one sentence. Your chances increase if you do it as registered user, signing the entry with --~ and having a user page containing the relevant data and links. See also the DOs and DON’Ts - Student Edition.


 * The first one here :) though I'm not really sure what I'll do... Probably an extension? Liangent (talk) 06:36, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Harpreet Singh, 3rd year UG, Computer Science, IIT Kanpur: Have extensive programming and web development experience and am open to ideas on what to work on.--Harpreet (talk) 17:10, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Aarti Dwivedi, 2nd year Integrated M.Tech, Geophysical Technology, IIT Roorkee: Have experience in programming, web development and Ubuntu application development. I would like to work on an extension. I will post my idea for a project soon. Any suggestions for ideas are welcome. -- Rtdwivedi (talk) 07:44, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Rahul Maliakkal,3rd year UG ,Computer Science,U.V Patel College Of Engineering.Have programmed before C,Java and Python. Extension Development or Bug Fixing would be the place where i would want to put my foot in.Rahul21 (Rahul21)
 * Shekhar Kadyan, 4th year UG, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur: Interested and highly experienced in web development/android development/data mining. Open to ideas. .--Shekharkadyan (talk) 11:34, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
 * Udit Saxena, 3rd year UG, Maths and Computer Science Engineering, BITS Pilani: Have programmed in Python, Go, Java, C/C++, LAMP; I am currently doing a course in Machine Learning. I have experience in Web Development. I am open to ideas on what to work on. Phaedrus24 (talk) 04:09, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Vivek Rai, 1st year Undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. I have a deep interest and some programming experience in PHP, Python, Javascript and C. I have been a continued Wikipedia editor and love writing and contributing. I'm open to work on any idea. Thanks! Vivek Rai (talk) 04:42, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Richa Jain, 2nd year undergraduate Electrical Engineering ,IIT Roorkee: experienced in programming and quite interested in web development. I would like to work for an extension and i am open to work on any idea. --Rjain (talk) 12:17, 15 February 2013 (UTC) Rjain
 * Thiago Avelino, 5th year of Computer Engineering UTFPR, I have experience in web development using design patterns such as MVC and MVVM. You can find more information about me in my blog --Thiagoavelino (talk) 20:58, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Anubhav Agarwal, 4rth year UG, Computer Science IIT Roorkee. Proficient in Web development using MVC Architecture. Skilled in C, Php and Python -- Anubhav iitr (talk) 21:55, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Puneet Kala, 4th year B.tech, Computer Science DA-IICT Gandhinagar. I have a good knowledge and experience of web development. I am proficient in PHP, JS, JQuery, HTML, CSS apart from this I have also worked on C/C++. I have used CakePHP(Framework) for one of my projects. I am open to work on any idea. Thanks :) Please contact me through email: puneet.0191@gmail.com
 * Mayank Bhola, 3rd year undergraduate from JIIT Noida: Loves web programming and scripting , have fair coding experience in PHP,Python,JS,C++.I am open to work on any idea,and also have project idea for wiki inter-operatibilty with other formats (updated my user page for ideas ) .Psych0der (talk) 13:35, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Saheb Motiani, interested in Web Semantic Development. I would like to work on Semantic MediaWiki and expand my knowledge in Web Semantics and it's application. GSOCer 2012. Experienced with Open Source Development. Saheb
 * Rihan Pereira, myself a 3rd year undergraduate student,i am interested in contributing and learning your codebase,i have experience in version control like git and mercurial,learning php on the way for better code reviews.I have done projects on python using its frameworks,javascript,php,nodejs.So,looking forward to be a part of mediawiki developer community.Rihnapstor(Rihnapstor)
 * Atul Agrawal,myself a 3rd year computer science student from BITS Pilani. I am interested in solving user related problems.I have good knowledge and experience of php,JS,Jquery,mysql,java and C . Moreover I have experience in git.I am observing the community via mailing list and irc and am looking forward to be part of MediaWiki.IRC Nick(Mr_Alpha) Atul (talk)
 * Avilash Kumar, myself a third year undergraduate from IIT Bombay. I have a good experience with web development (PHP , MYSQL , DJANGO , CSS , JAVASCRIPT , HTML ) and have also programmed on C++ and Java. Looking forward to building extensions as a part of MediaWiki Avilash (talk)
 * Ashen Gomez, Final year Computer Engineering undergraduate from Sri Lanka. Looking forward to work with MediaWiki as a contributor. I have experience in web development(PHP,MySQL,Zend,jQuery etc...), mobile development in Android, Java, C and Python. ashengmz (talk)

Mentors
Introduce yourself and your interests in one sentence. Your signature and updated user page are assumed. :) See also the DOs and DON’Ts - Mentor Edition.


 * I'm offering to mentor Wikimedia Commons related projects. I'm also available for a more generic project for a student who comes from another language and would like to learn PHP / improve PHP skills. --Dereckson (talk) 21:46, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I would like to mentor browser test automation project. For more information please see Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects page. --Zeljko.filipin(WMF) (talk) 20:44, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Raylton P. Sousa (talk) Interested in stuff relating to sister [non-wikipedia] projects (or maybe generic things like this and this)
 * Particularly interested in any project where the student is a member of the relevant community the project is targeting, and the student came up with the project him/her-self to fix a problem that they are actually encountering. Bawolff (talk) 19:29, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm involved with both Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata and willing to mentor interesting projects related to either. I prefer to mentor students who already have a decent background with doing development work --Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 17:57, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Admins
Ideally three, to cover each other and have less work per head. See also the DOs and DON’Ts - Org Admin Edition.


 * Quim Gil will be there but welcoming help. I can do the boring part dealing with Google and the submission process, but I'm happy delegating as much as possible during program.--Qgil (talk) 18:42, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yaron Koren (talk) 23:30, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Placeholder for an admin. Take it!

Project ideas
The best ideas are the ones that come together with a student or a mentor. Still, you can suggest ideas even if there is nobody backing them right now (and you might want to consider stepping in?).

You can bring ideas from Mentorship programs/Possible projects or post new ones here. Please sign your suggestions so it is clear where do they come from.


 * Your idea here.