Timeline for the next GSoC round is (for Outreachy it is more or less the same, will update later when it is available on the website):
- January 23, 17:00 UTC - mentoring organization applications due
- March 27 - Student applications due
- April 27 - Accepted students announced
- May 14 - August 14 - coding period
TODOS
For:
After the program is announced (By Jan 23)
- Apply as a mentoring organization for GSoC
- Inform Outreachy organizers that Wikimedia will participate as a mentoring org
- Explore Outreachy's new dashboard
- Set up a GSoC 18 and Outreachy Round 16 page on Wiki
- Recruit two organization administrators (from the list of mentors in the previous round)
- Email folks who were a mentor in the previous edition (2017)
- Create a Outreachy-Round-16 and Google-Summer-of-Code-18 project tag on Phab
- Recruit ideas for projects and mentors
- Approach mentors of projects on New Developers landing page
- Look for projects in the Possible-tech-projects workboard
- Reach out to previous year GSoC / Outreachy candidates (both participants and mentors) for ideas
- Elsewhere
- Zulip chat stream setup
After the accepted mentoring organizations are announced (Feb 12)
- Call for mentors and projects: email to Wikitech-I and Wikimedia-I
- Check with folks: MusikAnimal, Prateek, Jayvdb, Alangi, Alex S, Tony
- Check with Ben about connecting CE tech needs with GSoC / Outreachy
- Check with mentors and students from the previous edition
- Check with mentors listed on the New Developers guide
- Check with team leads if there is an interest in mentoring a project
- Social media outreach via MediaWiki/ Wikimedia channel
- Ask candidates from the previous editions to share these posts through their network
- Invite mentors to be on the GSoC dashboard
- Host a chat on Zulip for applicants of both programs