Hello all, Roughly a week left for the application start, we only have* 4 projects* listed under 'Featured for GSoC/Outreachy' in our Possible-tech-projects board[1]. Projects in the featured list have at-least one mentor and a co-mentor ready to guide prospective interns. We need to add more to this from the 'Missing-Mentors' list, before the application start on March 15th.
If you are a past GSoC/Outreachy intern, and thinking of not-being-intern this time, we have this issue of no-co-mentors on couple of well scoped projects - which you can solve. From what I can collect from our 'Life of a successful project doc[2], a co-mentor need not be necessarily technical oriented, and more of product/community oriented. It would be great if we can get one more mentor/co-mentor added to the following projects so that they are featured. 1. Make the Education program dashboard usable for all languages and projects [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91676 ] 2. Add ZIM format support to OCG - [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73660 ] 3. Page contributors [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120478 ] 4. Reading list - [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120756 ] 5. List of contributors - [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120738 ] Hope to see your name in the task description! [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs/Life_of_a_successful_project Thanks, Tony Thomas <http://www.thomastony.me> Blog <http://blog.thomastony.me> | ThinkFOSS <http://www.thinkfoss.com> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Sumit Asthana <asthana.sumi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > Congratulations to all. Yet again, Wikimedia has been accepted as a > mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code program. > > The two programs GSoC '16 and Outreachy 12 are now in full swing and we > require your support to make them successful! The timeline for GSoC '16 is > [1]. > > We have a lot of project ideas in the Possible-Tech-Projects board[2], > where students can look for projects. > > Some of them are already featured, while a lot more *require your love*. > > Feel free to add yourself as a mentor if you think you could help move any > of the projects forward, especially in the "*Discussion*" and "*Missing > mentors*" column. A lot of projects in the "*Missing mentors*" column > have also been recently added, which are Community wishlist items, and > stand a good chance of being featured. > > Enlisting some of the more discussed projects here - > 1. Technology to transclude git content into Wiki pages - [3] > 2. Improving static analysis tool for MediaWiki.[4] > 3. Make the education program dashboard usable for all languages and > projects.[5] > > Comments are *most welcome* in shaping these ideas into featured projects. > > Also, if you know of other projects/ideas which could be a good fit for a > 3 month GSoC/Outreachy internship, just add #possible-tech-projects to them > and we'll help in defining its scope. > > More info can be found out at the MediaWiki page for GSoC '16[6] > > Lets collaborate and help students turn some *ideas into reality*! > > [1] - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline > [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ > [3] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91626 > [4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89682 > [5] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91676 > [6] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016 > > -Thank You! > -Sumit > -Co-organizer of GSoC '16 and Outreachy 12 alongwith Tony Thomas > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
