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
[] 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)
[X] 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 streams for projects