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

Sugar Labs is applying to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2014.

Upcoming deadlines:

February 14

Mentoring organization application deadline.

Mar 22 – Apr 6

Google program administrators review organization applications.

April 8

List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2013 site.

April 9-21

Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.

April 9

Slot allocation announced.

May 19

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

As a student	As a mentor	By contributing Ideas
The most important job of all! Sugar Labs is looking forward to your contribution. To begin, we strongly recommend orienting yourself with the Sugar Labs codebase. Be sure to visit http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ and look at the bugs triaged "sugar-love" on the main page. These bugs are tasks that are simple enough for people to orient themselves with the code. (Please add your proposal to the wiki on a page called Summer_of_Code/2012/Proposal_name where Proposal_name is the name of your proposal.)	You can directly benefit a new software developer's coding competency and confidence levels while contributing to Sugar Labs and developing your own first-line management skills.	Here you can look for more development ideas - projects GsoC 2014.

Person to Contact

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

Maintaining this wiki page for the summer 2014 GSoC season (Feb 2014 - Sep 2014),
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

Subpages

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-'''Google Summer of Code''' Sugar years: | [[Summer of Code/2009|2009]] | [[Summer of Code/2010|2010]] | [[Summer of Code/2011|2011]] | [[Summer of Code/2012|2012]] | [[Summer of Code/2013|2013]]
+[http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014 '''Google Summer of Code'''] Sugar years: | [[Summer of Code/2009|2009]] | [[Summer of Code/2010|2010]] | [[Summer of Code/2011|2011]] | [[Summer of Code/2012|2012]] | [[Summer of Code/2013|2013]] | [[Summer of Code/2014|2014]]
-Sugar Labs is applying to '''Google Summer of Code (GSoC)''' for 2013.
+Sugar Labs is applying to '''Google Summer of Code (GSoC)''' for 2014.
 '''Upcoming deadlines:'''
-'''March 18'''
+'''February 14'''
-:'''Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.'''
-'''March 29'''
 :'''Mentoring organization application deadline.'''
-'''April 1-5'''
+'''Mar 22 – Apr 6'''
 :'''Google program administrators review organization applications.'''
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 :'''Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.'''
-'''April 22'''
+'''April 9'''
-:'''Student application period opens.Student application process begins'''
+:'''Slot allocation announced.'''
-'''May 3'''
-:''' Student application deadline.'''
-'''May 4-6'''
-:'''Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant.'''
+'''May 19'''
+:''' Students begin coding.'''
 ==Links==
-*'''[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Website]'''
+*'''[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 Website]'''
-*'''[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 Timeline]'''
+*'''[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014 Timeline]'''
-*'''[http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/faqs Faqs]'''
+*'''[http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/faqs FAQs]'''
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 | The most important job of all! Sugar Labs is looking forward to your contribution. To begin, we strongly recommend orienting yourself with the Sugar Labs codebase. Be sure to visit http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ and look at the bugs triaged "sugar-love" on the main page. These bugs are tasks that are simple enough for people to orient themselves with the code. (Please add your proposal to the wiki on a page called Summer_of_Code/2012/'''Proposal_name''' where Proposal_name is the name of your proposal.)
 | You can directly benefit a new software developer's coding competency and confidence levels while contributing to Sugar Labs and developing your own first-line management skills.
-| Here you can look for more development ideas - [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Resources#Project_Ideas projects] [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2012 GsoC 2013].
+| Here you can look for more development ideas - [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Resources#Project_Ideas projects] [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2014 GsoC 2014].
 |}
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 Need help? Contact [[User:Walter| Walter Bender]]. He's responsible for,
-* Maintaining this wiki page for the summer 2013 GSoC season (Feb 2013 - Sep 2013),
+* Maintaining this wiki page for the summer 2014 GSoC season (Feb 2014 - Sep 2014),
 * Coordinating SL's application to the GSoC program as a mentorship organization,
 * Recruiting mentors,