Hello Folks, Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2022 and Outreachy Round 24! *Google Summer of Code 2022* 1. Nivas Ramisetty, India, Campaigns Retention Metrics Dashboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304826> Mentors: KCVelaga, Jayprakash12345. 2. Ayan Sarkar, India, Improve the picture selector of the Commons Android app <https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/4764> Mentors: Syced, Aditya. 3. Lalit Suthar, India, Extending the WikidataComplete plugin for enabling data donations, recommendations, and gamification <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301613> Mentors: Gabinguo <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gabinguo> , Aleksandr Perevalov <https://github.com/Perevalov> 4. Ankit Gupta, India, Edit Request Wizard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300454> Mentors: Enterprisey <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Enterprisey>, SD0001 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SD0001>. 5. Shashwat Khanna <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shashwat312>, India, Modernize JavaScript build process and dependencies for Wiki Education Dashboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301731>, Mentors: Sage (Wiki Ed) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sage_(Wiki_Ed)> . 6. Lennard Hofmann <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:LennardHofmann>, Germany, Rewrite the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302098>, Mentors: Mike Peel <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>. 7. Amal Paul, India, Command-line interface for Canasta <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301893>, <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279998> Mentors: Jeffrey Wang <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:MyWikis-JeffreyWang>, Yaron Koren <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yaron_Koren> *Outreachy Round 24* 1. Vaidehi Atpadkar, Add support for tracking specific namespaces to Programs & Events Dashboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301732> Mentors: Sage Ross. 2. Nazia Tasnim, Build Python library to work with html-dumps <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302237> Mentors: Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnson. 3. Feliciss, What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300207> Mentors: Mike Peel <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>, Pigsonthewing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>. 4. Luis Roberto, What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300207> Mentors: Mike Peel <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>, Pigsonthewing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>. We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief overview of the project they will be working on. We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our community, and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the summer! Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm and commitment! Thank you to Srishti, Jay Prakash <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345> and Aisha Khatun <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aisha_Khatun> for coordinating this round along with me! [1] Google Summer of Code 2022: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2022 [2] Outreachy Round 24: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_24 Regards, Gopa Vasanth <https://gopavasanth.me> Twitter <https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopa-vasanth/> | GitHub <https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth> “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” _______________________________________________