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last modified April 8 by MatthewWilkes
What is it?
Google Summer of Code is a project that sponsors university students to improve open source projects. Plone has been a participant for the last two years; we've had 11 students in that time. Students are assigned mentors who help them get to grips with the code base and the community, but they dedicate a lot of time to pure Plone work – it's an invaluable opportunity for both the students and the community.
Helping out
We need your help! First, sign up to this team! For the submission of our application (which needs to be done before 12th March) we need a list of project ideas and a mentoring team. If you're thinking of applying to be a mentor, read this handy guide first.
Prospective students
Welcome! Firstly, sign up to OpenPlans (it's where lots of planning within the plone community happens) then request to join this team. Once that gets approved (as if we'd turn you down - you guys rock!) you can talk to us on our mailing list. In the mean time, have a look at the top section of project ideas and join us on Freenode in #plone-soc, it's right next door to #gsoc, you can't miss it.
Applications have now closed
Dates for your diary
- April 18
- All mentors must signed up and all student proposals matched with a mentor by 0700 GMT.
- April 21
- Accepted student proposals announced at code.google.com/soc/ ~1900 GMT.
- May 26
- Students begin coding for their GSoC projects.
- July 7
- Mentors and students can begin submitting mid-term evaluations ~1900 GMT.
- July 14
- Mid-term evaluations deadline at 1900 GMT.
- August 18
- Firm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can being submitting final evaluations to Google ~1900 GMT.
- September 1
- Final evaluation deadline 1900 GMT.