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Google Summer of Code Sugar years: | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016

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

Upcoming deadlines:

February 19

Mentoring organization application deadline.

February 29

Mentoring organizations announced.

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/.

Please add your proposal to the wiki on a page called:

Summer_of_Code/2016/Proposal_name

where Proposal_name is the name of your proposal. Please copy this proposal template.

You also need to apply on the Google Summer of Code website.

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 2016.

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 2016 GSoC season (Feb 2016 - Sep 2016),
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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 Please add your proposal to the wiki on a page called:
-Summer_of_Code/2015/'''Proposal_name'''
+Summer_of_Code/2016/'''Proposal_name'''
 where Proposal_name is the name of your proposal. Please copy this [[Summer_of_Code/Template|proposal template]].
-You also need to apply on the [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 Google Summer of Code website].
+You also need to apply on the Google Summer of Code website.
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