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.

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.


 * 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)

Mentors
Introduce yourself and your interests in one sentence. Your signature and updated user page are assumed. :)


 * 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)

Admins
Ideally three, to cover each other and have less work per head.


 * 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)
 * Placeholder for an admin. Take it!
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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.