Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code Sugar years: | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015

Sugar Labs is applying to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2015.

Upcoming deadlines:

February 20
 * Mentoring organization application deadline.

Mar 3 – Mar 15
 * Would-be students discuss projects with mentors

Apr 27
 * List of accepted students published on the Google Summer of Code 2015 site.

May 25
 *  Students begin coding.

Links

 * Website


 * Timeline


 * FAQs

We look forward to accepting your contributions to support the use of technology in education. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is "a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects."1

How to participate

 * Note: We are experiencing some issues with account creation both on the wiki and in the bug tracker. If you run into problems, please contact Walter Bender as per below.

Person to Contact
Need help? Contact Walter Bender. He's responsible for,


 * Maintaining this wiki page for the summer 2015 GSoC season (Feb 2015 - Sep 2015),
 * Coordinating SL's application to the GSoC program as a mentorship organization,
 * Recruiting mentors,
 * Recruiting applicants,
 * Selecting applicants,
 * Supervising mentors, which largely entails making sure mid-term and end-of-summer reports are handed in on time,
 * Interfacing with the Sugar Labs Oversight Board members to deal with collection and distribution of funds from Google

Some external links

 * Google Summer of Code Page
 * Google Open Source Programs Office
 * Google's Open Source Blog
 * Program Timeline
 * Etoys 2010 GSOC at SqueakSource
 * Debian Wiki