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Google is sponsoring the 2011 Summer of Code, the The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is planning to participate again this year (mentoring organisations have not yet been accepted). This page is your entry point to the ASF GSoC programme.

Students: read this

Applying for GSoC

Details will be announced in the next few weeks. However we encourage you to already discuss you application with the project community.

In order to apply we ask that you create a list of deliverables, quantifiable results for the Apache community, a detailed description / design document, an approach, an approximate schedule and something of a background text. 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

Contacting the ASF

The ASF is not just one project, it is a federation of projects, see the lists at http://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.

Prospective ASF mentors: read this

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 programme 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 in committers/MailAlias.txt''' 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 "gsoc" 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.

ASF GSoC 2011 Timeline

Below is a timeline of events for The Apache Software Foundations involvement in GSoC. Unless otherwise stated deadlines are 11:59 UTC on the date indicated.

Student Application and Selection

DateActivity
January 24:Program announced.
February 28: 19:00 UTCMentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.
March 11: 23:00 UTCMentoring organization application deadline.
March 14-17:Google program administrators review organization applications.
March 18: 19:00 UTCList of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2011 site.
March 18-27:Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.
March 28: 19:00 UTCStudent application period opens.
April 8: 19:00 UTCStudent application deadline.
Interim Period:Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant.
April 22:
  1. All mentors must be signed up and all student proposals matched with a mentor - 07:00 UTC
  2. Student ranking/scoring deadline. Please do not add private comments with a nonzero score or mark students as ineligible (unless doing so as part of resolving duplicate accepted students) after this deadline - 17:00 UTC
  3. IRC meeting to resolve any outstanding duplicate accepted students - 19:00 UTC #gsoc
April 25: 19:00 UTCAccepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2011 site.

GSoc is underway

Community Bonding PeriodStudents get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.
May 23:
  1. Students begin coding for their GSoC projects;
  2. Google begins issuing initial student payments provided tax forms are on file and students are in good standing with their communities.
Interim Period:Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects.
July 11: 19:00 UTCMentors and students can begin submitting mid-term evaluations.
July 15: 19:00 UTC
  1. Mid-term evaluations deadline;
  2. Google begins issuing mid-term student payments provided passing student survey is on file.
Interim Period:Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects.
August 15:Suggested 'pencils down' date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc.
August 22: 19:00 UTCFirm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google.
August 26: 19:00 UTC
  1. Final evaluation deadline
  2. Google begins issuing student and mentoring organization payments provided forms and evaluations are on file.

Wind down

August 29:Final results of GSoC 2011 announced
August 30:Students can begin submitting required code samples to Google
October 22 & 23: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.

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