Hi there,

The application deadline for GSoC and Outreachy has passed. We have received:

- 44 GSoC applications from 43 candidates - 10 Outreachy applications from 10 candidates including 5 who have also applied for GSoC

Several of the projects have received multiple proposals, making it hard for out mentors to choose the best from all the applicants. Everyone is invited to join in the selection process and actively ask the candidates questions about their proposals.

The GSoC proposals submitted can be found at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/google-summer-of-code-2015/

The Outreachy proposals submitted can be found at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreachy-round-10/

For our students:

If you have not yet created a task for your project proposal on Phabricator yet, we encourage you to do that as soon as you can. If your proposal is complete and you have completed one or more relevant microtasks, you can sit back and relax now. If not, you should complete your application as soon as possible.

For the mentors:

All mentors must join the GSoC/Outreachy review websites ( http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 and https://outreachy.gnome.org respectively) in order to privately evaluate the candidates. I want to take the opportunity to remind all our mentors that under no circumstances are we allowed to reveal the results of the selection process before April 27th 1900 UTC when the official list will be out on Melange. Hence, no hints or resolutions must be given out on the Phabricator tasks or on Melange.

Some resources for the mentors:

- Guidelines for possible mentors: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Possible_mentors

- Our selection process: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Selection_process

- Lessons learned from the previous rounds: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Lessons_learned

By April 13 we need to decide how many slots we want to request in both programs. In GSoC we request a number of slots to Google which we might or might not get. In Outreachy, we fund some slots, we might request more and then we might or might not get them.

Questions? Just ask.

Thanks, Niharika.