Wikimedia served a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code in 2014.

See also the parallel program FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 8.

Timeline

For more detail, check the official timeline.

• 24 February: List of accepted mentoring organizations published
• 11 March: Wikimedia IRC meeting (logs)
• 21 March: Student application deadline
• 9 April: Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations
• 21 April: Accepted student proposals announced
• 19 May: Official start.
• 20 May: GSoC & OPW IRC meeting (logs)
• 23-27 June: Mid term evaluations by students and mentors.
• 18 August: Firm 'pencils down' date.
• 19 August: GSoC & FOSS OPW wrap-up meeting on IRC; #wikimedia-office @ 3pm UTC (logs)
• 18-22 August: Final evaluations by students, mentors, and organization administrators.
• 22 August: Final evaluation deadline
• 25 & 26 October: Mentor Summit at Google

Status

Reporting progress is essential in free software projects. Good reports are concise, they highlight relevant progress/blockers, and they link to bug reports, patches, or other interesting pages.

Participants are required to share Updates about their projects:

• initial announcement on Wikitech-l
• initial microtasks completed
• community bonding report by 25 May including links to
  • goals for the first half of the internship
  • communication plan
  • lessons learned since 21 April
• first weekly report by 30 May
• project wrap-up post by 20 August

See also:

• Lessons learned
• Category:Summer of Code 2014 proposals

GSoC participants