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/>