Google Summer of Code 2010

Process

• Website: http://socghop.appspot.com/
• FAQ: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs

Timeline

February 8:	Program announced. Life is good.
March 8:~12 noon PST / 19:00 UTC	Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.
March 12:4 PM PDT / 23:00 UTC	Mentoring organization application deadline.
March 13-17:	Google program administrators review organization applications.
March 18:~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC	List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2010 site.
March 18-29:	Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.
March 29:~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC	Student application period opens.
April 9:12 noon PDT / 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.
April 21:	All mentors must be signed up and all student proposals matched with a mentor - 07:00 UTCStudent 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 UTCIRC meeting to resolve any outstanding duplicate accepted students - timing TBD, will be announced well in advance
April 26:~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC	Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2010 site.
Community Bonding Period:	Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.
May 24:	Students begin coding for their GSoC projects;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 12:~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC	Mentors and students can begin submitting mid-term evaluations.
July 16:12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC	Mid-term evaluations deadline;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 9:	Suggested 'pencils down' date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc.
August 16:~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC	Firm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google.
August 20:12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC	Final evaluation deadlineGoogle begins issuing student and mentoring organization payments provided forms and evaluations are on file.
August 23:	Final results of GSoC 2010 announced
August 30:	Students can begin submitting required code samples to Google
October (date TBD):	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.

Ideas

see also http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Recommendations/Offline

MediaWiki extension to create ZIM files

• content selection by user:
  • add a selector to each article "include this article"
  • provide a method to include categories / all articles with selected categories
  • choose if images should be included as well or not
  • choose if selected articles / category should be exported or the whole wiki
• content selection by extension:
  • make a list of all selected articles
  • make a list of all categories needed
  • make a list of all involved images / files
  • gather a list of involved MIME types
• ZIM header:
  • send the list of content to zimlib
  • create meta data for zimlib
  • send MIME type list
• ZIM content:
  • provide an interface for zimlib where it can fetch article content
  • retrieve HTML content of an article - only content section

zimreader for mobile phones

make a HTML viewer that uses zimlib to show contents on a mobile phone

can be

• Symbian
• J2ME