It's official! Today Wikimedia has been accepted into Google Summer of Code together with other 176 organizations:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/wikimedia
The next step in the process is to get the mentors registered.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors
Which means that if you were still considering mentoring then yes, you still have time to join us. Hurry up! The list of project ideas is (imho) pretty impressive, and we have just started receiving more ideas from students interested in spending the Summer with us.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
On 04/08/2013 07:40 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
It's official! Today Wikimedia has been accepted into Google Summer of Code together with other 176 organizations:
Thank you, Quim! I'm glad you're able to take over administering our GSoC this year and that we are (in my opinion) on our way to a fulfilling Summer of Code.
Also: Wikimedia uses lots of open source software, and I hope we will benefit from GSoC students' work on Debian, LibreOffice, Nmap, OWASP, Python, Linux, WordPress, and more. Through GSoC I've learned of other FLOSS projects I hadn't heard of before, such as Swathanthra Malayalam Computing https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/smc which works on Malayalam-related software internationalisation. So, yay for new contributors to our larger community as well.
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