Summer of Code 2012/management

Summer of Code 2011 is the 2011 edition of a community program sponsored by Google, allowing students to join the community as developers.

This page focuses on internal management of the program by the 2012 admin for Wikimedia, Sumana Harihareswara.

Timeline
timeline
 * Organisation applications begin February 27.
 * Organisation applications deadline March 9.
 * Student applications begin March 26.
 * Student application deadline is April 6.

GSoC management philosophy
This is where I (Sumana Harihareswara, manager of our participation in GSoC) am placing my thoughts on how we should participate in GSoC this year.

As Summer of Code Past Projects and MaxSem's quantitative analysis show, we have only an okay track record of nurturing students into continuing members of our community and of merging good code into trunk and deploying it.

Hands-on mentorship and management
I'm going to be taking quite a hands-on approach to organizational administration this year. I will be selecting mentors based on my judgment of their collaborative and mentoring skills, setting up online meetings among students and among mentor-student pairs, and insisting on early and frequent public communication from students. This is in response to previous suboptimal experiences with students who went silent, or mentors who didn't talk with their students enough, or projects that went astray because the larger development community wasn't engaged with them and so code never got reviewed and merged.

Documents

 * Summer of Code 2012/management/application
 * Status updates

Communications

 * (none yet on the blog)
 * Various February and March 2012 emails on the wikitech-l mailing list