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Google Summer of Code 2011

The application period for students aded April 8th, now it is our task to review and rank the submitted proposals and assign mentors to them. This has to be done until April 22nd and on April 25th Google will announce the accepted projects (no, we cannot tell you anything before...).

Until the 22nd we may get back to you with questions or requests for more detail. Also feel free to discuss on the typo3.gsoc mailing list/newsgroup and get in touch with the community.

Google Summer of Code is a program designed to encourage college/university student participation in open source development. Students in Computer Science or related fields are provided the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer. To achieve this Google pays students stipends to work on open source projects like TYPO3.

A lot more information is available in Google's Summer of Code FAQ and Knowledge Base Wiki.

First organizations like the TYPO3 Association sign up as mentoring organizations for GSoC. If the organization gets accepted students submit project proposals to the organization. We then rank the student submissions and pair the students with mentors from the TYPO3 project.

Google then allocates a given number of slots to each organization and the students work all summer on their project in close mentored collaboration with our mentors.

During that time, a program stipend paid by Google allows students to concentrate on their Open Source Software development project.

TYPO3 has been accepted into GSoC 2011, you could have applied for the program until April 8th. If you did, get involved, subscribe to the TYPO3 GSoC and developer mailing lists, hang out in the IRC chat, check out the documentation, and just start playing with TYPO3 and some extensions.

You can use the provided mentor application form to let us know that you want to be a mentor. However, you should be familiar with TYPO3 development, be it core development or extension development to be able to support the students.

Please make sure you read the Advice for Mentors page for more tips.

After having reviewed your application we will let you know whether you have been accepted. Keep in mind, that once the student application phase has been closed, new mentors will most likely not be accepted.

Feel free to ask your question in the TYPO3 development mailinglist or directly ask our Summer of Code administrators Ingo Renner and Karsten Damebkalns.