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.

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