Google Summer of Code/2014

Wikimedia served a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code in 2014.

See also the parallel program FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 8.

Timeline
For more detail, check the official timeline.


 * 24 February: List of accepted mentoring organizations published
 * 11 March: Wikimedia IRC meeting (logs)
 * 21 March: Student application deadline
 * 9 April: Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations
 * 21 April: Accepted student proposals announced
 * 19 May: Official start.
 * 20 May: GSoC & OPW IRC meeting (logs)
 * 23-27 June: Mid term evaluations by students and mentors.
 * 18 August: Firm 'pencils down' date.
 * 19 August: GSoC & FOSS OPW wrap-up meeting on IRC; #wikimedia-office @ 3pm UTC
 * 18-22 August: Final evaluations by students, mentors, and organization administrators.
 * 22 August: Final evaluation deadline
 * 25 & 26 October: Mentor Summit at Google

Status
 Reporting progress is essential in free software projects. Good reports are concise, they highlight relevant progress/blockers, and they link to bug reports, patches, or other interesting pages.

Participants are required to share Updates about their projects: 
 * initial announcement on Wikitech-l
 * initial microtasks completed
 * community bonding report by 25 May including links to
 * goals for the first half of the internship
 * communication plan
 * lessons learned since 21 April
 * first weekly report by 30 May
 * project wrap-up post by 20 August

See also:


 * Lessons learned
 * Category:Summer of Code 2014 proposals