Google is sponsoring the 2013 Summer of Code and The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization. This page is your entry point to the ASF GSoC program.
Details are announced now and we are in the project discussion phase. We encourage you to discuss you application with the project community.
In order to apply we ask that you create
We also need you to let us know what other commitments you have for the period of GSoC, for example, do you have any exams or a part time job? In other words - sell yourselves, as if this was an actual job.
In drawing up your proposal you should work with your chosen projects community.
One of our evaluation criteria is that you have already engaged with the community to ensure that you understand the needs of the project and the commitment you need to make to your mentors.
Once open applications are made through the GSoC site
The ASF is not just one project, it is a federation of projects, see the lists at http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/. Each of our projects has its own community of users, contributors and committers. GSoC students will usually be interacting with just one of these communities.
Each of the proposed subjects (link to be provided if we are confirmed as a mentoring organisation) applies to a single ASF project. You will need to engage with that project community.
We are looking for as many interesting projects as we can come up with. For more info about mentoring, please read our guide to being a mentor .
Prospective mentors should join the code-awards@apache.org mailing list, this is where mentor specific issues are dealt with, and where announcements will be made. If you want to track the program administration you should subscribe to dev@community.apache.org.
Once the ASF is confirmed as a mentoring organisation mentors must register with the GSoC webapp, and request to become a mentor for the ASF organization. Make sure that the email address you use for that (it's often your @gmail.com address by default) is '''registered as a mail alias for your Apache account at (http://id.apache.org)''' so that we can match it to your ASF account. You should also register your '''GSoC Link Id to committers/GSoCLinkId.txt'''.
All ASF projects are invited to submit their ideas to their issue tracker,
please be sure to add the labels "gsoc2013" and "mentor" so that we can
automatically include them in our list of subjects. If your project does
not use JIRA please contact dev@community.apache.org.
Below is a timeline of events for The Apache Software Foundation's involvement in GSoC. Unless otherwise stated deadlines are 11:59 UTC on the date indicated.
| Date | Activity |
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| February 11: | Program announced. |
| March 18: 19:00 UTC | Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google. |
| March 29: 19:00 UTC | Mentoring organization application deadline. |
| April 1-5: | Google program administrators review organization applications. |
| April 8: 19:00 UTC | List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2011 site. |
| April 9-21: | Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations. |
| April 22: 19:00 UTC | Student application period opens. |
| May 3: 19:00 UTC | Student application deadline. |
| Interim Period: | Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant. |
| May 6: | Mentoring organizations should have requested slots via their profile in Melange by this point. |
| May 8: | Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations |
| Interim Period: | Slot allocation trades happen amongst organizations. Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant. |
| May 22: | First round of de-duplication checks happens; organizations work together to try to resolve as many duplicates as possible. |
| May 24: |
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| May 27: 19:00 UTC | Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2012 site. |
| Date | Activity |
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| Community Bonding Period | Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects. |
| June 17: |
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| Work Period: | Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects. |
| July 29: 19:00 UTC | Mentors and students can begin submitting mid-term evaluations. |
| August 2: 19:00 UTC |
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| Work Period: | Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects. |
| September 16: | Suggested 'pencils down' date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc. |
| September 23: 19:00 UTC | Firm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google. |
| September 27: 19:00 UTC |
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| Date | Activity |
|---|---|
| September 27: | Students can begin submitting required code samples to Google |
| October 1: | Final results of GSoC 2013 announced |
| October 19 & 20: | Mentor Summit at Google: Representatives from each successfully participating organization are invited to Google to greet, collaborate and code. Our mission for the weekend: make the program even better, have fun and make new friends. |