Hi,
Starting today, candidates of Google Summer of Code and FOSS Outreach
for Women can submit their proposals officially. See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2014
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_8
We are hosting an IRC meeting to answer the questions of candidates and
mentors tomorrow Tuesday, March 11, at 15:00 UTC (New Delhi 20:30,
Amsterdam 16:00, San Francisco 8:00 AM).
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140311T08&p1…
As Wikimedia did in previous rounds, we are extending the rules of these
projects with a requirement on transparency. All candidates must draft
their proposals in
mediawiki.org pages, and they must list themselves in
the tables of candidates at the pages linked above.
This allows the whole community to watch and get involved in discussions
at the related wiki pages, Bugzilla reports, and this list. Please keep
an eye to new submissions. Whoever you are, your feedback is welcome.
Candidates must submit their proposals directly to GSoC and OPW as well,
but thanks to our application template this shouldn't imply more work
that copy & paste:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Application_template
This time we also have many new mentors. Please get familiar with the
timeline of the programs. Your most important task now is to assess your
candidates, based on their proposal but also on practical assignments
like fixing real bugs related to their projects.
By April 7 we will communicate to Google how many slots we want, based
on the projects proposed that we believe that can succeed. This year the
definition of success will be based on measurable outcome: new feature
functional, merged, and deployed in Wikimedia Labs at least.
Candidates and mentors willing to pass the cut must work with this goal
in mind. Cmpared with last year, we will focus more on the quality of
the projects, not worrying about the quantity of projects we get.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil