Hi, an update.
On Friday, March 21, 2014, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Everybody is invited to join the selection process.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Selection_process
Mentors have started evaluating candidates yes/maybe/no in the GSoC and OPW private sites. I have started checking the yes/no against the criteria of our selection process, agreeing or not with the evaluation, and usually leaving feedback in the proposal's talk page. Basically, I'm playing evil's advocate, trying to push the announced goal of quality over quantity.
Next Monday, one week before our deadline to request a number of slots for GSoC and OPW, we will start focusing on the maybes, resolving them in one direction or another.
We still have three relevant proposals from active candidates that are lacking confirmed mentors and a proper evaluation:
UniversalLanguageSelector fonts for Chinese wikis, by Aaron Xiao https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Xiaoxiangquan/UniversalLanguageSelector_... Liangent and David Chan are interested in co-mentoring, they need help from a developer familiar with ULS.
Automatic cross-language screenshots for user documentation, by Vikas S Yaligar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Vikassy/GSoC14 There have been some informal conversations, but there is nothing confirmed. At least one developer familiar with our Coninuous Integration / QA testing tools is needed.
Frontend for Vector skin CSS customizations, by Ioannis Protonotarios https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Protnet/Frontend_for_Vector_skin_CSS_cus... No mentors confirmed (or mentioned at all?). At least one mentor familiar with MediaWiki extension development is required.
Volunteers are still welcome! Mentoring or helping evaluating proposals and candidates. Ten days to go, there is still time to make informed decisions.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_8
By April 7 we need to decide how many slots we want to request in each
program. In GSoC we request a number of slots to Google, which we might or might not get. In OPW we fund some slots, we might request more, and then we might get them or not.
Questions? Just ask.