Google Summer of Code/2013

Google Summer of Code is the most popular among the open source mentorship programs where we get involved. This year Wikimedia is participating with 20 projects.

You can find more information, FAQs and tutorials for students, mentors and org admins in the official website.

Check out also the Free and Open Source Outreach Program for Women. We are running both programs in parallel.

Projects
The first mentor listed is the primary mentor.

You can also check the official list of projects at the GSoC website.

Community bonding period
Following the GSoC calendar, until June 17 we are in the community bonding period: Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.

The bonding also goes for mentors, who need to get familiar with their student and their duties as GSoC mentors.

We will organize a virtual meetup inviting all students and mentors, open to the rest of the community. Stay tuned.

Checklist
By June 1st

We are working on a post for the Wikimedia tech blog where we will link to the mediawiki.org user profiles and project pages of all GSoC and OPW students. You can help!

We will also include these links in the Mentorship programs monthly report, and this is why the deadline is important.


 * Make sure your profile is up to date.
 * Include one short paragraph introducing yourself and your expectations about your GSoC project. We will add it to the blog post.
 * All the better if you include a casual landscape picture of yourself in the actual place where you will work on your GSoC project. We will also include these pictures to the blog post. You can upload the picture to http://commons.wikimedia.org using the web interface or the Commons mobile app.

By June 17th


 * You have a good intro of your project at the GSoC website that is descriptive, looks good and links to your full project page at mediawiki.org.
 * You have setup your development environment and you are confident of having read and understood the relevant documentation for your project.
 * You are subscribed to wikitech-l, following at least all GSoC related threads.
 * If there is a specific mailing list relevant to your project (mediawiki-i18n, wikidata-tech, offline-l, mobile-l, xmldatadumps-l, semediawiki-devel) you are also subscribed and following.
 * You have agreed the way of working with your mentors (code, bugs, updates, regular communication), it is based on public community channels and documented in your full project page at mediawiki.org.
 * You have posted a comment in the bug report related to your project explaining the current status and next steps.
 * You are aware that you can watch mediawiki.org pages and enable notifications to your user preferences.

After completing this checklist please add "Bonding: OK" to the Updates column of the table above. Then you can wait until June 17th or you can start coding right away!

Administrativia
The people in charge of applying to GSoC, running the program and assist mentors and students in anything beyond their projects.

Our plans take into consideration the lessons learned in 2012 and the DOs and DON’Ts - Org Admin Edition.


 * Quim Gil: primary contact with the program organizers.
 * Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)