Summer of Code 2012/management/status

Last update on: 2012-05-monthly

2012-02-29
MediaWiki aims to participate in Google Summer of Code 2012. Sumana Harihareswara, as MediaWiki's organizational administrator, improved the Summer of Code 2012 page, added project ideas, and communicated with prospective mentors and students to flesh out project ideas and help students learn.

2012-03-10
Sumana Harihareswara submitted Wikimedia Foundation's application to Google and we're just waiting for March 16th, when we'll hear whether we've been accepted. The Summer of Code management page now also has principles for how we will run GSoC this year.

2012-03-16
The Wikimedia Foundation has been accepted to participate in Google Summer of Code 2012. Students can apply between March 26 and April 6.

2012-03-31
Sumana Harihareswara submitted the Wikimedia Foundation's application for Google Summer of Code 2012 (GSoC), which was accepted by Google. The Summer of Code management page lists principles for how we will run GSoC this year. Students can apply between March 26 and April 6.

2012-04-23
Wikimedia engineers have chosen nine students for this year's program.

2012-04-monthly
Wikimedia engineers have chosen [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/23/wmf-selects-9-students-for-gsoc/ nine students for this year's program]. For the next few weeks, until May 21st, the students and their mentors are working together to train the students in MediaWiki development, so that they'll have all the basic domain knowledge they'll need to succeed during the summer.

2012-05-monthly
The nine Google Summer of Code students have begun their twelve weeks of design and coding.