Yeah, we can! But, we need projects with a clear scope and two mentors who are willing to provide guidance to students throughout the summer (May-August) as they develop their projects. And, this is not necessarily the case with community wishlist projects that are not in the top 10. In the past, we have tried to promote the wishlist projects through our outreach programs but couldn't make any progress.
If any developer is interested in mentoring a project from the wishlist, I would be happy to chat with them!
*Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 7:01 PM James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
We have a lot of amazing potential projects that just missed the selection criteria for the community wish list in 2019
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Results
Would some of these quality as projects?
James
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:11 PM Srishti Sethi ssethi@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in the Google Summer of Code 2019 with 207 open source projects https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/02/gsoc-2019-organizations.html :) And, application period for Outreachy Round 18 started last week.
We have listed a few ideas for projects for both programs on MediaWiki and we are looking for more. Unlike Google Summer of Code, Outreachy is open to non-students and non-coders and projects could be around documentation, design, translation research, outreach, etc. View current list of ideas:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_18
Both these programs have a similar timeline for the summer round. Accepted candidates will work with mentors from May to August 2019. If you are interested in mentoring a project, create a task on Phabricator and tag it with #outreach-programs-projects and #Google-Summer-of-Code (2019) or #Outreachy (Round 18). You can also choose to mentor for projects already on outreach-programs-projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/ workboard. Remember, every project must have two mentors.
Some helpful resources for you:
- Learn more about the roles and responsibilities of a mentor:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
- View full program timeline:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/
Looking forward to your participation! :)
Cheers,
Srishti, Derick and Pratyush (Wikimedia org admins)
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