Hello all,
This is a reminder that the *deadline *to apply for Google Summer of Code 2016 with Wikimedia Foundation falls in *< 24 hours* at Friday, *March 25* at 19:00 UTC. Please make sure that you have your *pdf *copy of proposal in the application system at g.co/gsoc well before, to avoid last minute confusions.
Past the deadline, applicants can do *minor* edits to their proposal copy in Phabricator, which should be limited to wording/style changes. All proposals submitted in the application system should have its copy in Phabricator as Life_of_a_successful_project#Submitting_your_proposal https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Life_of_a_successful_project#Submitting_your_proposal, and should have minimum *2 mentors *connected with it. Make sure you have a link to your Phabricator task somewhere in the proposal, to make things easy. We will be sending a separate notification to all proposals submitted on the same, and get ready for more emails!
Project mentors and co-mentors are required to get connected with the application system via *invites*, and you can add your name to the description at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128441 or comment, for the same. We will be starting separate Conpherence for that, either-way.
Thanks, Tony Thomas https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas Home http://www.thomastony.me | Blog http://blog.thomastony.me | ThinkFOSS http://www.thinkfoss.com
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Tony Thomas 01tonythomas@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
Google announced the start of accepting proposals for GSoC 2016 few hours ago. Interested and eligible candidates should submit their proposals at http://g.co/gsoc before the deadline of Friday, March 25 at 19:00 UTC.
Wikimedia evaluates your proposal Phabricator task, but it is required that you have a copy of the same in the GSoC portal too, to make sure it gets a slot ( if eligible ). By March 25th, every possible application should have *2 mentors* connected with it, and should have a proposal copy in Phabricator, as well as the GSoC portal. Please make sure you mention the phab task details in your proposal, for convenience. If you are planning to apply, you should be looking at Life_of_a_successful_project#Coming_up_with_a_proposal https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Life_of_a_successful_project#Coming_up_with_a_proposal
As of today, we have *8* projects featured for this round ( strong idea + 2 mentors connected ), and *13* projects missing one among the two mentors. Interested in mentoring ? see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ and add yourself as one.
The Outreachy round May - August 2016 is open, with a deadline of *March 22, 2016 *and eligible applicants are advised to apply for *both* GSoC and Outreachy, so that the project can still make it, in case we are missing a slot with a strong applicant.
Thinking of motivating someone in your locality to take part in ? Find flyers and presentations here https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/media#logos_and_artwork for GSoC 2016 round!
Thanks, Tony Thomas https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas Home http://www.thomastony.me | Blog http://blog.thomastony.me | ThinkFOSS http://www.thinkfoss.com