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)

*Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/